
Glass. 
Book- 




ONS °f 

THE 



/American 




EVOLUTION 



QlSTRICT OF QOLUMBIA 



Year Book for 1891 





GEUR(;E WASllIXGTOX 

[kkom iue i;rsr by hoidon] 



~^ 

Y^AR BOOK 



OF THE 



District of Columbia Society 

Sons 



OF THE 



American Revolution 

1891 



Eibertas et ^atcia 



Printed for THE SOCIETY by Gedney & Roberts, in the one hundred 

AND fourteenth YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF the 

united states of AMERICA. 



OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY 

1891. 



Gen. a. W. GREELY, U.S.A. 

Igonororg 

Admiral J. L. WORDEN, U.S.N. Gen. M. C. MEIGS, U.S.A. 

Hon. JOHN SHERMAN. Gen. O. B. WILLCOX, U.S.A. 

AdmiralJAMES E.JOUETT, U.S.N. Hon. JOHN W. DOUGLASS. 

Gen. E. D. TOWNSEND, U.S.A. Gen. JAMES J. DANA, U.S.A. 

Gen. MARCUS J. WRIGHT, Gen. H. V. BOYNTON, 

Col. MARSHALL McDONALD. 

^ectefariee 

A. HOWARD CLARK, ARNOLD BURGES JOHNSON, 

National Museum. Light House Board. 



^rcaeuret 

WILLIAM VAN ZANDT COX, 

National Museum. 



(Regtefrar 

G. BROWN GOODE, 

Smithsonian Institution. 



^iBtotian 

FRANCIS O. ST. CLAIR, M.D. 

Department of State. 



23oarb of ITTanagcmcnt 

1891 



Gen. a. W, Greely, U.S.A., President. 

Gen. H. V. Boynton, of Ohio. 

Col. John Bell Brownlow, of Tennessee. 

Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U.S.A., of Kentucky. 

Gen. Franklin G. Butterfield, of Vermont. 

Prof. W. D. Cabell, of Virginia. 

A. Howard Clark, of Massachusetts, 

William A. DeCaindry, of Georgia. 

Capt. R. C. DuBois, U.S.A., of Pennsylvania. 

Henry Wise Garnett, of Virginia. 

George Brown Goode, of Connecticut. 

Arnold Burges Johnson, of Massachusetts. 

Col, Marshall McDonald, of Virginia. 

Capt. William Morris Meredith, of Illinois. 

Col. M. M. Parker, of Vermont. 

Col. Felix A. Reeve, of Tennessee. 

Francis O. St. Clair, M.D., of Maryland. 

Richard H. Spencer, of Maryland. 

Prof. Robert E. C. Stearns, of California. 

Gen. Marcus J. Wright, of Tennessee. 

William C. Winlock, of Massachusetts. 




ADMIRAL D. D. PORTER, U. S. N. 

First President of the Society. 
[from a i'hotograph by c. m. hkli,.] 



OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 

1890. 



Admiral DAVID DIXON PORTER, U.S.N. 

(Ptce (J)re6i^ent0 
Gen. a. W. GREELY, U.S.A. Gen. MARCUS J. WRIGHT. 



FRANCIS O. ST. CLAIR, M.D. WILLIAM C. WINLOCK, 

Smithsonian Institution. 



CoL. MARSHALL McDONALD, 

U. S. Fish Commission. 



(Rcgt0ftar0 



GEORGE BROWN GOODE, A. HOWARD CLARK. 

Smithsonian Institution. 



(Bxcaxim Committee 

Gen. J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, Capt. R. C. DuBOIS, 

W. D. CABELL, WILLIAM C. WINLOCK, 

Gen. MARCUS J. WRIGHT. 



Boarb of IHanacjement 
1890 



Admiral David D. Porter, U.S.N., President. 

Gen. H. V. Boynton, of Ohio. 

Gen. Joseph C. Breckinridge, U.S.A., of Kentucky. 

Prof. W. D. Cabell, of Virginia. 

A. Howard Clark, of Massachusetts. 

Gen. James J. Dana, U.S.A., of New York. 

Capt. Richard C. DuBois, U.S.A., of Pennsylvania. 

Hon. William P. Frye, of Maine. 

George Brown Goode, of Connecticut. 

Gen. a. W. Greely, U.S.A., of Louisiana. 

Arnold Burges Johnson, of Massachusetts. 

Col. Marshall McDonald, of Virginia. 

Gen. M. C. Meigs, U.S.A., of Pennsylvania. 

Hon. Levi P. Morton, of New York. 

Col. M. M. Parker, of Vermont. 

Col. Felix A. Reeve, of Tennessee. 

Francis O. St. Clair, M.D., of Maryland. 

Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio. 

Richard H. Spencer, of Maryland. 

Joseph M. Toner, M.D., of the District of Columbia. 

Gen. E. D. Townsend, U.S.A., of Massachusetts. 

Gen. Duncan S. Walker, of the District of Columbia. 

Gen. Marcus J. Wright, of Tennessee. 

Rear- Admiral John L. Worden, U.S.N., of New York. 

William Crawford Winlock, of Massachusetts. 



Sons of the 
American Revolution. 



The Citizens of the United States are responsible for the greatest trust ever confideii to a polit- 
ical society. If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which ennoble the 
character of a nation and fulfil the ends of government be the fruits of our establishments, the 
cause of Liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre which it has never yet enjoyed ; and an 
example will be set which cannot but have the most favorable influence on the rights of Mankind. 

James Madison, 1783. 

The Society op Sons of the American Revolution enables the man of the North and the 
man of the South to stand on the same platform. We shall have an electric current of fraternal 
interest reaching from the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande. 

Admiral Porter, 1890. 



HE Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution is purely patriotic in its pur- 
poses. Through its agency representative 
men of all parties and from every section, 
the descendants of the patriots who 
achieved independence for our Nation, are brought together in 
sympathetic and friendly association for the promotion of 
objects specifically named in its Constitution, as follows : — 

(i) To perpetuate the memory and the spirit of the vien who 
achieved American Independence, by the encotiragement of histor- 
ical research i?i relation to the Revolution and the ptiblication of 
its residts, the pj^escrvatio^i of docuvients and relics and of the 
records of the individual services of Revolutionary soldiers and 
patriots, and the promotion of celebrations of all patriotic a^ini- 
versaries. 

(2) To carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell 
address to the American people : — " To promote, as an object of 




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SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



primary importance, instihUions for the (general diffusion of 
knowledge,''' — thus developing an enlightened public opinion and 
affordi)ig to young and, old such advantages as shall develop in 
them the largest capacity for performing the duties of A^ncrican 
citizens. 

(3) To cherish, mai)itain, and extend the i?istitntio7is of Amer- 
ican freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country, and 
to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty. 

The Society is National in its scope and is governed in mat- 
ters of general importance by a board of officers elected at its 
annual convention. It is made up of the following State 
Societies, in every respect co-equal in rank : — 



LIST OF SOCIETIES. 

January, 1891. 



Name. 

National Society, 

California, 
New Jersey, 
Connecticut, . 
Vermont, 
South Carolina 
Massachusetts, 
Maryland, 
Ohio, . . 
Kentucky, . 
Missouri, . 
Tennessee, . 
Minnesota, 
Arkansas, . 
Wisconsin, 
Indiana, 
Michigan, . 
Delaware, . 
West Virginia, 
Rhode Island, 
Illinois, 
New York, 
District of Colu 
Nebraska, . 
Alabama, 
Louisiana, . 
Virginia, . . 



President. 
Dr. William Seward Webb, of Ver- 
mont, President General. 
Col. A. S. Hubbard. 
Hon. John Whitehead. 
Jonathan Trumbull. 
Hon. Redfield Proctor. 
Hon.'J. P. Richardson. 
Hon. Charles H. Saunders. 
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson. 
H. V. Axline. 
Hon. H. W. Bruce. 
Josiah Fogg. 
Rev. D. C. Kelley, D.D. 
Hon. Albert Edgerton. 
Col. Samuel W. Williams. 
Don J. Whittemore. 
Hon. William E. Niblack. 
Hon. H. B. Ledyard. 
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard. 
Hon. John J. Jacob. 
John Nicholas Brown. 
Judge Henry M. Shepard. 
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. 
Admiral David D. Porter. 
Champion S. Chase. 
Capt. Joseph Forney Johnston. 
Hon. William H. Jack. 
Hon. William Wirt Henry. 



The California Society, which stands at the head of the list, 
is (with the exception of the Society of the Cincinnati, 



HISTORY AND OBJECTS. IX 

founded May 13, 1783, and the American Revolution . Society, 
or Seventy-six Association, composed of officers and soldiers, 
founded in the South in 1784, which existed for many years, 
but long ago became extinct) the first patriotic organization 
ever founded in America, with membership based upon service 
in the cause of American Independence. It came into exist- 
ence on the Fourth of July, 1876, when citizens of San Fran- 
cisco, about forty in number, descendants of the patriots of 
the Revolution, having marched together in the great procession 
which was the most striking feature of California's celebration 
of the Centennial Anniversary of Independence, met to organize 
the Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires.* The objects of 
the society then founded were defined in a circular letter, sent 
out in August, in the following terms: 

"To unite the descendants of Revolutionary patriots and 
perpetuate the memory of those who took part in the American 
Revolution, and maintained the independence of the United 
States of America; to organize auxiliaries, co-equal branches 
and representative bodies, at such time and place as the directors 
may determine." 

The desire of the founders of the new society to extend its 
work beyond the boundaries of California met with much 
encouragement. Honorary membership was accepted by Ex- 
Presidents Grant and Hayes and other public men throughout 
the country, and before the close of 1876, Vice Presidents had 
been appointed in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, 
Iowa and the District of Columbia,! with authority to found 
branch societies, and these efforts were continuous up to 1883. 
It is not certain that any such branches were ever formed, but 



*On June 29th (1876) the following request was published in the news columns of the 
" Alta " : " The descendants of the Revolutionary patriots are requested to meet at the headquar- 
ters of the Grand Marshal, at No. 212 Kearney street, at 8 o'clock this evening, for the purpose of 
making arrangements to participate in the celebration." In response to the call between forty and 
fifty citizens assembled. General N. M. Winn presided, and Dr. E. L. Willard was chosen secre- 
tary. All present signed the roll. After the parade the organization marched to the Palace Hotel 
and partook of refreshments. It was at this meeting that they formally organized under the 
title of "Sons of Revolutionary Sires" (July 4th, 1876). Ten days latfr the new organization 
adopted a constitution and by-laws, and has since been a permanent society in this city. 

From the "Alta California," May 5th, 1889. 

fMr. N. T. E. Chandler, of the U. S. Patent Oflfice, Vice President for the District of Colum- 
bia, died in 1889, and the papers relating to the history of his work cannot be found. 



X SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

the California Society maintained a continuous existence until 
1889, when it changed its name in order to participate in the 
organization of the National Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution, and is still one of the strong organiza- 
tions in the federation. 

In 1876 Mr. John Austin Stevens, of New York, proposed 
the organization of a society, to be called "Sons of the Revo- 
lution," and to be composed of descendants of officers and 
soldiers of the Revolutionary Army. No meetings appear to 
have been held under this plan. The New York society of the 
Sons of the Revolution was formally established December 31, 
1883. In 1888 some of its members founded a similar society 
in Philadelphia, and in March and April, 1889, similar organiza- 
tions were formed in thirteen other States. Through some un- 
fortunate misunderstanding the society in New York f^iiled to 
participate in the movement now begun for the establishment 
of a National organization, although it was the desire of the 
other States that New York should take the lead. The tech- 
nical difficulty seems to have been the unwillingness of the 
other States to recognize the supposed claim of the New 
York society to be the central and sole source of authority. 

On the Anniversary day, April 30, 1889, upon the invitation 
of the New Jersey Society, delegates from fourteen States met 
in the historic "Long Room" of Fraunces's Tavern, in New 
York, the apartment in which Washington took leave of his 
Generals at the close of the Revolution, and formed an organi- 
zation of National scope under the name of The Society of 
the Sons of the American Revolution, and under the Consti- 
tution then adopted the several State societies already men- 
tioned have become federated. 

The District of Columbia Society, Sons of the American 
Revolution, was organized April 11, 1890, by Mr. William O. 
McDowell, of New Jersey, at that time Vice President General 
of the National Society. Its career, though short, has been 
prosperous, and it is already one of the largest and strongest of 
the associations of descendants of the patriots of the Revolution. 

In 1890 the New York Society abandoned its plan of aux- 
iliary branches, and joined with that in Pennsylvania to form a 
general or National Society, under the name of Sons of the 




WASHINGTON AND HIS G E N H R A I. S 
Fkauncis' Tam kn, Ui:cemiii:k 4. 17N'. 



HISTORY AND OBJECTS. XI 



Revolution, This action removed all tangible obstacles to the 
union of all the State societies in one National organization. 
The question of priority of organization is not one of the highest 
importance, for all will concede that the present widespread 
interest is largely the outgrowth of the part which the Sons of 
THE Revolution in New York have taken in the movement 
which began in 1876 in both San Francisco and New York, 
which took tangible form in San Francisco in 1876 and in New 
York in 1883, and which culminated in 1889 in a general or- 
ganization of State societies throughout the whole Union. 

Prior to the organization of the Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution in Washington City, a society of the 
Sons of the Revolution was in existence. This was organized 
April 3, 1890, under the Presidency of the Hon. John Lee 
Carroll, and with a very distinguished membership. On April 
3, 1890, this society subscribed to the Constitution of the Sons 
OF THE Revolution, prepared by the Representatives of the 
New York and Pennsylvania Societies. 

The National Society of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution was organized in Washington City, October 11, 
1890, and has already a large membership, which is extending 
over the entire country. Its objects are identical with those of 
the two other societies already referred to, though its organi- 
zation and eligibility requirements are somewhat different. 

Serious work has already been begun by all the societies. 
Members of the old New York Society did noble service in 
providing for the completion of the pedestal of the Bar- 
tholdi Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor; and it was 
to its members that the Centennial Celebration of 1889 
owed its origin, and largely its success. It also aided 
materially in the erection of a monument to Nathan Hale. 
The State societies are planning for the systematic celebration 
of local events of historic interest; Massachusetts has cele- 
brated the anniversary of " Lexington," and New Jersey those 
of "Red Bank," "Trenton" and "Springfield," and Tennessee 
that of "King's Mountain." Our National Society has asked 
the interest of the Congress to prevent the desecration of the 
National flag by its use for advertising purposes, and is en- 
deavoring to encourage the playing of National airs by all 



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SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



bands on National anniversaries. All the societies are urging 
the more general display of the National flag. The California 
Society and our own set the example of a patriotic gathering 
on July 4, 1890 ; an example afterwards strengthened by the 
issue of an official circular from the National Society. 

Much still remains to be done in the way of patriotic en- 
deavor. The localities of historic events and the birthplaces 
and graves of Revolutionary heroes are to be identified and 
marked by suitable monuments. Revolutionary documents 
and records, especially the unpublished rolls of the soldiers, 
and the stories of individual service are to be brought to light, 
indexed and printed. The Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the 
Revolution, has begun serious work in the preservation of his- 
torical documents. The Michigan Society, S. A. R., passed a 
resolution April 24, 1890, urging the publication of the records 
of the Army of the Revolution, and Col. Hubbard, the President 
of the California Society, wrote to the President of the National 
Society, February 18, 1890, as follows: — 

' ' / hope that some method will be formtdated zvhereby the 
U^iited States Government will undertake to gather, compile and 
publish, from its archives, and the archives of the thirteen origiyial 
States, the record of every officer, soldier aiid sailor who partici- 
pated iyi the war of 1776, and that the zvork thus published zvill 
be recog7iized as the American Domesday Book. The National 
Society of Sons of the American Revolution should be more than 
an auxiliary in the production of such a zvork. ' ' 

A wholesome and intelligent interest in the principles and 
acts of the Revolution may well be encouraged throughout the 
country. It is believed that whenever any question of real 
importance is to be considered, unanimity of sentiment and 
harmony of action will always be found among the various 
organizations of the descendants of the patriots of 1776. 




Bn Mtmoviam. 



MDMUND FI^AGG. 

Died in Fairfax County, Virginia, November i, i8go. 



ADMIRAI, DAVID DIXON PORTl^R U.S.N. 

Died in Washington, February 12, i8gi. 



GENMRAI, J0S:B)PH £)GGI,]EST0N JOHNSTON. 

Died in Washington, March 21, 1891. 



JOSHUA OTIS STANTON, M.D. 

Died in Washington, April g, i8gi. 



JUDGE SAMUMI MII,I,ER BRECKINRIDGE. 

Died in Detroit, May 28, i8gx. 



GENERAI, GEORGE THOM, U.S.A. 

Died in Washington, June 2g, i8gi. 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 



There are three stages in the history of the North 
American Revolution — the first of which may be considered 
as beginning zvith the order of the British Council for enforc- 
ing the acts of trade in 1760, and as having reached its crisis 
at the meeting of the first Congress fourteen years after, at 
Philadelphia. It was a struggle for the preservation and 
recovery of the rights and liberties of the British Colonies. 
It terminated in a civil zuar, the character and object of 
ivhich zvere changed by the Declaration of Independence. 

The seco?id stage is that of the War of Independence, 
usually so-called — but it began fiftee7i months before the 
Declaration, and was itself the immediate cause and not the 
effect of that event. It closed by the prelimittary Treaty of 
Peace concluded at Paris, on the joth of November, 1782. 

The third is the formation of the Anglo-American People 
and Nation of North America. This evetit was cotnpleted 
by the meeting of the first Congress of the United States, 
under their presetit Constitution, on the Fotirth of March, 

17S9. 

John Quincy Adams, 1S36. 

7 here is nothing more common than to confound the 
terms of American Revolution with those of the late 
American War. The America?i War is over, but this is 
far from being the case zvith the American Revolution. 
On the contrary, nothing bid the first act of the great 
drama is closed. It retnains yet to establish and perfect 
our new forms of govertiment, and to prepare the prin- 
ciples, morals and manners of our citizens for these forms 
of government, after they are established and brought to 
perfection. 

Benjamin Rush, 1787. 



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CONSTITUTION. 





1 



ARTICLE I. 

NAME. 

HE name of this Society shall be The District 
OF Columbia Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution. 



ARTICLE II. 

objects. 

The objects of the Society shall be : 

To perpetuate the memory and the spirit of the men who Historical 
achieved American Independence, by the encouragement of "^a'iid 
historical research in relation to the Revolution and the publi- 
cation of its results, the preservation of documents and relics 
and of the records of the individual services of Revolutionary 
soldiers and patriots, and the promotion of celebrations of all 
patriotic anniversaries. 

To carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell Promotion 

IT I A • y , , -r- , 1 • °f National 

address to the American people: — lo promote, as an object institutions 
of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of 
knowledge," — thus developing an enlightened public opinion 
and affording to young and old such advantages as shall 
develop in them the largest capacity for performing the duties 
of American citizens. 



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CONSTITUTION. 



Promotion 
of 
Patriotism. 



To cherish, maintain, and extend the institutions of Ameri- 
can freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country, and 
to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty. 



Eligibility. 



Ancestry Records 

of 

Women. 



Honorary 

Members. 



Members 

of the 

National Society. 



Officers 

and 

Managers. 



ARTICLE III. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

I. Any man is eligible for membership who is of the age 
of twenty-one years, and who is descended from an ancestor 
who, with unfailing loyalty, rendered material aid to the 
cause of American Independence as a soldier or a seaman, 
or a civil officer in one of the several Colonies or States or of 
the United Colonies or States, or as a recognized patriot, pro- 
vided that the applicant shall be acceptable to the Society. 

II. For the purpose of perfecting the records of Revolu- 
tionary patriots and their descendants, any woman of Revolu- 
tionary ancestry may file with the Registrar a record, in dupli- 
cate, of her ancestors' services and of her line of descent, one 
copy of whfich shall be deposited among the archives of the 
National Society. 

III. Any person may be eligible for honorary membership, 
subject to the limitations as to age and descent established 
in the case of active members. 

IV. All members of the National Society are our comrades 
and brothers, and when within the borders of our jurisdiction 
will be welcome to our meetings and to assist in our celebra- 
tions and work. 

ARTICLE IV. 

OFFICERS AND MANAGERS. 

I. The officers of the Society shall be a President, one or 
more Vice Presidents, two Secretaries, a Treasurer, a Registrar, 
an Assistant Registrar, an Historian, and such others as may 
be deemed necessary, who shall be elected by a vote of the 
majority of the members present at the annual meeting of the 
Society, and who shall hold office for one year, or until their 
successors shall be elected, and who, with thirteen other 
members, shall constitute the Board of Management. 



CONSTITUTION. 



XVII 



II. Delegates to the Congress of the Society shall be elected Delegates to the 
at each annual meeting, in accordance with the requirements of ""s^ess. 
the Constitution of the General Society. 

III. An Executive Committee of five, of which the President Executive 
of the Society shall be the chairman, which may be elected 

by the Board of Management from their number, shall, in the 
interim between the meetings of the Board, transact such 
business as shall be delegated to it by the Board of Manage- 
ment. 



ARTICLE V. 



FEES AND DUES. 

I. The initiation fee, including dues for the first year, shall 
be five ($5) dollars; the annual dues three ($3) dollars; or the 
payment at one time of fifty ($50) dollars shall constitute a life 
member, with exemption from payment of dues thereafter. 

II. The annual dues shall be payable on the first day of April 
in each year. 

III. A member who shall remain in arrears for dues for three 
months after notice of his indebtedness has been sent him, may 
be dropped from the rolls by the Board of Management. 

IV. The initiation fees and all payments for dues and life 
memberships shall be used by the Board of Management for 
the purpose of paying the dues of twenty-five cents for each 
active member, to the National Society, of publishing such 
documents as they may deem advisable, of paying the running 
expenses, and for such special purposes as may be ordered by 
a vote of two-thirds of the Board of Management. 



Amount. 



Time 

of 

Payment. 

Arrearages. 



Application 

of 

Funds. 



ARTICLE VI. 

MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS. 



I. The Annual Meeting for election of officers and transaction 
of business shall be held at noon on the twenty-second day of 
February, the anniversary of the birth of George W^ashington, 
in every year, except when that date shall fall on Sunday, in 
which case the meeting shall be held on the following day. 



Annual iVIeeting, 



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CONSTITUTION. 



Special Meetings. 



Election 
of 
OfQcers. 



II. Special meetings may be called by the President or Board 
of Management at any time for business purposes or for the 
purpose of celebrating events of the Revolution or other 
patriotic events, or devising means for the prosecution of 
patriotic work. The President shall call a special meeting 
whenever requested in writing so to do by five or more 
members. 

III. General business may be transacted at any special meet- 
ing. 

IV. Thirteen members shall constitute a quorum at all meet- 
ings, except that three members shall be a quorum of the 
Executive Committee. 

V. All nominations for officers shall be made from the 
floor and not by committee, and all elections to office shall 
be by ballot. The persons receiving the majority of all the 
votes cast shall be declared elected, and shall hold office for the 
ensuing term and until their successors shall be elected. 



ARTICLE VII. 



Proposal 

of 

Amendments. 



Action 

on 

Amendments. 



AMENDMENTS. 

Amendments to this Constitution may be offered at any 
meeting of the Society, but shall not be acted on until the next 
meeting. A copy of every proposed amendment shall be sent 
to each member, with a notice of the meeting at which the 
same is to be acted on, at least one week prior to said meet- 
ing. 

A vote of two-thirds of those present shall be necessary to 
the adoption of any amendment. 



BY-LAWS. 



SECTION I. 

ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 

Members shall be elected as follows : Candidates may send 
their applications together with documents and other proofs of 
qualification for membership,* to the Secretary; and, upon a 
Aivorable report from .the Board of Management, and upon 
payment of the initiation fee, shall become members of the 
Society. 



Election 
to 

Membership. 



SECTION II. 

THE PRESIDENT. 

The President, or in his absence the Vice President, or in his 
absence a Chairman, pro te7?ipore, shall preside at all meetings of 
the Society and Board of Management, and have a casting 
vote. He shall exercise the usual functions of a presiding 
officer, and shall enforce a strict observance of the Constitution 
and By-Laws and of the regulations and rules of the Society. 



*It is required that all applications shall be made upon the standard form of Application for 
Membership issued by authority of the Executive Committee, N. S., S. A. R., which provides for: 

1 . A statement of the services of the ancestor of the applicant in aid of the establishment of 
American Independence. 

2. A detailed statement of the intermediate generations of his pedigree, with full names of 
maternal and paternal ancestors in each generation, and, if possible, dates and places of birth and 
death, and places of residence. 

3. A recommendation of the candidate by a member of the Society. 

4. An affidavit by the applicant in support of the statements contained in his application. The 
affidavit has not as yet been required by this Society. 



Presiding 
Officer. 



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BY-LAWS. 



General 

Duties. 



Notices of 

Elections and 
Meetings. 



SECTION III. 

THE SECRETARY. 

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of 
the Society and such other matters as may be directed by the 
Society. He shall have charge of the seal, certificate of in- 
corporation, by-laws and records of the Society, and, together 
with the presiding officer, shall certify all acts of the Society. 

He shall keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings 
and orders of the Society; and shall give notice to the several 
officers of all votes, orders, resolves, and proceedings of the 
Society affecting them or appertaining to their respective 
duties. 

He shall notify all members of their election, and shall, 
under the direction of the President or Vice President, give 
due notice of the time and place of all meetings of the Society, 
and attend the same. 



SECTION IV. 



Disposition 

of 

Funds. 



Accounts 

and 

Audits. 



Balances. 



THE TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities 
of the Society; they shall be deposited in some bank or saving 
institute in this District, to the credit of The District of 
Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 
and shall be drawn thence on the check of the Treasurer, for 
the purposes of the Society only. Out of these funds he shall 
pay such sums only as may be ordered by the Society, or by 
the Board of Management. 

He shall keep a true account of his receipts and payments, 
and, at each annual meeting, render the same to the Society, 
when a committee shall be appointed to audit his accounts. 

If, from the annual report of the Treasurer, there shall appear 
to be a balance against the Treasurer, no appropriation of 
money shall be made for any object but the necessary current 
expenses of the Society until such balance shall be paid. 



BY-LAWS. 



XXI 



SECTION V. 



THE REGISTRAR. 

The Registrar shall keep a roll of members, and in his hands 
shall be lodged all the proofs of membership-qualification, and 
all the historical and genealogical papers, manuscript or other, 
of which the Society may become possessed ; and, under the 
direction of the Board of Management, shall keep copies of 
such similar documents as the owners thereof may not be 
willing to leave permanently in the keeping of the Society. 
He shall verify all statements of the revolutionary services of 
ancestors that may be made in the applications for member- 
ship, and make report to the Board of Managers. 

The Registrar shall, if practicable, be some person con- 
nected with the Smithsonian Institution. 



Membership 
RoU. 



Historical 
Documents. 



SECTION VI. 



THE HISTORIAN. 

The historian shall keep the records of the historical and 
commemorative meetings of the Society, and shall supervise 
the preparation and printing of all its historical publications, 
other than those of the membership rolls. 

He shall submit at each annual meeting a list of the mem- 
bers who may have died during the year, accompanied by 
biographical memoirs. 



Historical 
Records. 



Necrology. 



SECTION VII. 

THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT. 

The Board of Management shall consist of at least twenty- 
one members, namely, the President, Vice Presidents, Secre- 
taries, Treasurer, Registrar, and Historian, ex-officio, and thirteen 
others, elected as provided by the Constitution. 

They shall judge of the qualifications of the candidates for 
admission to the Society, and elect the same . They shall have 



Constitution 



Duties. 



XXII 



BY-LAWS. 



Annual 

Report. 



Quorum. 



Ayes and 
Nays. 



charge of all special meetings of the Society, and shall, through 
the Secretary, call special meetings at any time, upon the 
written request of five members of the Society, and at such 
other times as they see fit. They shall recommend plans for 
promoting the objects of the Society, shall digest and prepare 
business, and shall authorize the disbursement and expendi- 
ture of unappropriated money in the treasury for the payment 
of current expenses of the Society. They shall generally 
superintend the interests of the Society, and execute all such 
duties as may be committed to them by the Society. 

At each annual meeting of the Society the Board shall make 
a general report. 

At all meetings of the Board of Management, five or more 
shall be sufficient for the transaction of business. 

Ayes and nays shall be called at any meeting of the Society 
upon the demand of five members. 



SECTION VIII. 

AMENDMENTS. 



Proposal 

Of 

Amendments. 



Action. 



No alteration of the by-laws of the Society shall be made 
unless such alteration shall have been openly proposed at a 
previous meeting and entered in the minutes with the name of 
the member proposing the same, and shall be adopted by a 
majority of the members present at a meeting of the Society. 



THE INSIGNIA. 

The Cross of The Sons of the American Revolution is of 
silver, with four arms and eight points, similar in size and 
appearance to the Chevalier's cross of the Legion of Honor of 
France. The arms are of white enamel, the center a gold 
medallion with a bust of Washington, in profile, within a ribbon 
of blue enamel on which in gold letters is the legend: — 

LiBERTAS ET PaTRIA, 

the motto of the order. A laurel wreath in green enamel 
encircles the medallion, midway between it and the points of 
the cross. The reverse is like the obverse, except that the 
medallion bears the figure of the Continental soldier, and is 
surrounded by a ribbon of blue enamel upon which are 
inscribed in letters of gold the words : — 

Sons of the American Revolution. 

The cross is surmounted by an eagle in gold and silver. 

The rosette is of silk ribbon, blue and white, and is to be 
worn in the upper left button-hole of the coat, on all occasions 
and at will, except when the cross is in use. 

Major Goldsmith Bernard West, of Alabama, by whom the 
insignia were designed, explains their significance as follows: — 

"The cross of four arms and eight points, enameled in 
white, is drawn from the cross of the ancient chivalric order 
of St. Louis of France; but the monarchical lilies which were 
placed between the arms have been left out. In their place we 
surround them with the laurel wreath of Republican victory. 
There are two good reasons for selecting the form of the 
Cross of St. Louis as the ground-work of our decoration. It 
was the Grand Master of that Order, Louis XVI., who had lent 
to America that aid she so badly needed to win the fight for 
National Independence; and nearly all of the gallant French 



XXIV THE INSIGNIA. 



officers who personally fought with and for the Colonies were 
Chevaliers of the Order. It is intended as a recognition of 
them and their services, and as a compliment to their country 
and their descendants that we propose, in some part, the 
adoption of the form of the historic Cross of St. Louis. 

"The medallion in gold, which forms the center of the cross 
on its obverse side, and bears the bust in profile of Washing- 
ton, appears too appropriate to demand explanation or argu- 
ment. The legend surrounding it in letters of gold on a ribbon 
of blue enamel, 'Libertas ct Patria,' appears at once in keep- 
ing with the general design and in harmony with the principles 
and purposes of the order. 

"The reverse side of the cross is like the obverse, except 
that the reverse bears on the gold medallion the figure of a 
'Minute-Man,' a type of those old Continental Soldiers who 

Left their ploughshares in the mould, 
Their flocks and herds without a fold, 

and rushed to the defense of liberty and country at the first 
sound of the gun, the echo of which was heard around the 
world, — one of the heroes and martyrs of Valley Forge. 

"The decoration is to be suspended from the left breast or 
collar by a blue ribbon with white edges. Blue and white 
were the colors of the uniform of Washington's staff." 




THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 



[From the address by Rev. John McDowell Leavitt, D.D., LL.D.] 

"The Society of the Sons of the American Revolution rests 
on a wider basis than military rank and service. Pen and 
voice may be as useful to liberty as the sword. By essay and 
oration Henry, Adams and Jefferson accomplished as much for 
their country as Gates or Green or Putnam by the most bril- 
liant exploits of battle. Washington as commander was no 
more a patriot and benefactor than Washington as president. 
Nor must the heroes of the ranks be overlooked. Descendants 
of the sailor, soldier and civilian are recognized by our society; 
membership is based on true patriotic service, however and 
wherever rendered, during the war of the Revolution. 

" Two paths open to our society: 

"It may live in and for the past, it may collect and treasure 
relics, trace ancestors and extol the heroic era of our nation. 
Many naturally look behind rather than before for the golden 
age of our humanity ; and let us not discourage those inclined 
to venerable fashions. 

" But we have a nobler mission than devotion to the antique 
and aesthetic. As our society grows out of the past of our 
country, so it may become a potent element in the future. 

"Our country has been exempt from the peculiar trials of 
other lands. Humanity began with us anew. The Atlantic is 
the barrier between us and the past; hence on our soil liberty 
had an unimpeded growth. New obstacles gave new strength. 
Colonial struggles made our American manhood. The Revo- 
lution was our evolution. Nor has growth stopped; we are a 
century in advance of our ancestors. Our prisons are better; 



XXVI THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 

our schools are better; our colleges are better. Steam and 
electricity have enlarged our views even more than our means 
of intercommunication. 

" Where then was the glory of our fathers.? Rich patriots 
imperiled wealth and life for liberty. Poor citizens, through 
rags and blood and hunger and defeat, stood by the cause until 
victory was won. States quarreled and delayed their quotas. 
Congress was sometimes divided and uncertain ; cabals and 
ambitions and dishonesties were not wanting; but always 
there were men faithful to their leaders and their country. 
Valor and virtue triumphed. Hard experience made successful 
both revolution and constitution. Greece, Rome and England 
instructed our fathers; but American needs and trials were 
their best teachers. Measured by truest tests their patriotic 
wisdom has never been excelled. Out of bitter and paltry 
contests emerged a structure of liberty to endure forever. 
Amid cramping and belittling influences our constitution was 
shaped into a comprehensive instrument adapted to social 
needs, political requirements and territorial magnitudes of 
which its framers could have had no conception. For all time 
and all the world it stands their immortal monument. 

"Let our society study the work of our fathers as it is — it 
wants no glamour of a golden mist. When fancy converts 
our Revolutionary sires into ideals we lose interest. Men, not 
statues, stir living thoughts. History to be profitable must be 
honest. Whatever the frailties of others in peace and war, 
Washington without stain or cloud stands forth in solitary 
glory. 

"Nor should the Sons of the American Revolution forget 
that from the beginning they had a mingled blood. New 
England was moulded by the British Puritans. The Dutch 
controlled New York. Quakers and Germans settled Penn- 
sylvania. English Catholics largely shaped Maryland. Swedes 
prevailed in Delaware. Virginia boasted cavalier and church- 
man. The Scotch and Scotch-Irish immigrated extensively 
into New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Carolinas. 
Florida was long the home of the Spaniard. In Louisiana, 
French and Creoles were numerous. Huguenots leavened our 
whole republic. Our manhood grew from mixed national- 



THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. XXVII 



ities. Side by side their representatives fought in the Revolu- 
tion, and side by side evolved the constitution. To hide these 
facts is to be ashamed of ourselves. Origin creates our sym- 
pathy for humanity, hence in Americans these promises of 
universal liberty. We do not fear that immigrant nations will 
cloud or exhaust our sun. Rather we believe that they will 
diffuse the light until it circles the world. As statesmen we 
may wisely provide against an overwhelming flood of paupers, 
criminals and adventurers ; but as citizens and christians, we 
will welcome opportunities of moulding to republicanism and 
religion those who will be heralds of truth and apostles of the 
millennium. 

"And this leads to the noblest work of our society. We 
might specify much to be accomplished by gathering materials 
for history and souvenirs of the Revolution, by studying men, 
manners and measures, and by devising the best methods of 
perpetuating the memories of our ancestors and celebrating 
their achievements. These, however, will naturally be consid- 
ered in their time. But one noble field of usefulness should be 
extended to our view. 

" But why confine ourselves to a single country.? On our 
own continent we have fifty republics. Let us form with 
them leagues of fellowship. Our hearts should embrace self- 
government throughout the world. The American instinct for 
freedom is irrepressible; it cannot be restricted by bonds of 
nationalities. Humanity is its object. We only express and 
exercise a national impulse when we cultivate fraternity with 
men everywhere, who, by justice and intelligence, strive 
to elevate the people from sovereignty and help forward for 
earth a day of light and love and liberty." 



AMERICAN PATRIOTISM. 



[From the Address of the Honorable Chauncey M. Depew, President of the New York Society, 
at the Hartford Convention of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1891.] 

" No people have ever founded a State which has become a great nation, 
have ever preserved and enlarged their liberty, unless they had largely developed 
the qualities of imagination and of sentiment. They must deify the heroes to 
whose valor and statesmanship they owe their origin. They must picture in the 
eye ot the mind the battlefields upon which their forefathers fought and con- 
quered. They must see the clash of contending armies, hear the roar of the 
mighty hosts and the din of battle, and be enthused on patriotic occasions with 
the fire and the spirit which animated the men who created them as a power in 
the earth. 

" This republic has advanced or stood still just in proportion as its people have 
revered the men of the revolution and practiced the principles of the Declara- 
tion of Independence and of Washington's farewell address. 

******** 

" Every society like this of the Sons of the American Revolution is a 
seminary of patriotism. To belong to it is a liberal education for liberty. Four- 
teen millions of people have landed in this country and become absorbed in our 
population since 1820. Of our 63,000,000 of population nearly one-half have no 
ancestry or traditions which go back to the Revolutionary War. it is our duty 
for the good government of to-day and the greatness and growth of the republic 
in the future that the unification of our people shall be not only in loyalty to the 
flag and devotion to the Constitution, but in pride in the traditions and the 

history of our past. 

******** 

" We have need to cultivate stalwart and robust Americanism. We do not 

want an Americanism which is boastful and puffed up, but one of the objects of 

this association is to cultivate that knowledge of a glorious origin, an unequaled 

century, a land developed in one huncired years beyond any example in recorded 

time and yet in its infancy, a nation to-day one of the most powerful upon 

earth, an educational system which disseminates at the public expense universal 

education, a patriotism which is equal to all the requirements of troublous periods 

and peaceful times, which, when thoroughly appreciated and understood, will 

enable us to contemplate the past, knowing the present and defining the future, 

and say to our children, ' The proudest title on earth is to be an American 

citizen.' " 




BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 



[from a painting BV DUPLESSIS, in the CORCORAN 
GALLERY OF ARt] 



Znembcrsl?tp KoII 



1890 



The list now printed is a preliminary one and incliides only 
the names of those concerned in the organization of the Society 
who had completed their records before the date of publishing. 
It is intended to issue a new list early iu the year 1891. 



The Membership Roll is the first tribute of the Society to 
the memory of the Patriots of the Revolution. Since its 
manifest object is to keep in the minds of the members of 
the Society the natnes and services of the men of Revolution- 
ary times in whom they have the most intimate and personal 
interest, it has been deemed appropriate to enumerate under 
the name of each member, not only the name of the ancestors 
from whom he derives his own strongest claim to member- 
ship in this patriotic society, but th^se of collateral con- 
nections, whose services he tnay desire to commemorate. 

In certain instances incidental mention is made of pion- 
eers of freedom, who began to hew out a path for American 
institutions in the prim,itive forest, years and generations 
before the final struggle. Allusion is also made to many 
patriots of the period iminediately folloiuing the Revolu- 
tion, who fought in defense of American freedom and 
for the perpetuation of the Constittition which was the great 
result of the Revolutio7i* Incidental allusions, statements 
of collateral relationship, and others in relation to deduc- 
tions believed to be trustworthy, but not as yet fully au- 
thenticated, are enclosed in brackets. 



*The great work of the American Revolution was not in the maintenance 
of the rights of the British Colonies by argument, nor in the conflict of force 
by war, but in the formation of the Constitution — The war [of 1812] was 
the ordeal through which the Constitution of the United States as the 
Government of a great nation was to pass. John Quincy Adams, 1836, 



Membership Roll 



TF we have rescued one name from oblivion, and restored it to the remembrance of the 
American people, we shall be happy. Time has waged a fearful war on the memorials of 
Revolutionary days, and they lie scattered everywhere, at the feet of the desolator, and he 
who will not, if possible, gather, preserve, and record the precious fragments is guilty of in- 
direct war on the history of a blood-purchased nation. W. T. R. Saffell, 1858. 



Charles Abert. 34 

Lawyer. Born in Mount Holly, N.J., Sept. 19, 1822. 

Col Silvanus Thayer Abert. 35 

U. S. Agent. Bom in Philadelphia, July 22, 1828. 

Sons of Col. John J. and £l/en M. Stretch Abert: 
grandsons of John and Sybil Matlack Stretch: great- 
grandsons of Timothy and Elizabeth Claypole Matlack. 
Timothy Matlack (1736- 1829), of Pennsylvania, "the 
fighting Quaker," was Member of the Committee of 
Safety; Colonel of Militia; Deputy in the State Confer- 
ence of 1776; Delegate to the Continental Congress, 
i78o-'87; Secretary of the Council of State, and Master 
of the Rolls, 1 78 1. 

Maj. George Augustus Armes. 71 

Captain and Brevet Major U. S. Army (Retired). Born in Fairfax Co., Vir- 
ginia, May 29, 1844. 

Son of Josiah O. and Olive Orcutt Armes: grandson 
of James and Clarissa Armes Orcutt. James Orcutt 
( 1 763-1847), of Goshen, Mass., was an officer in the 
Massachusetts Militia in the Hudson River campaign.* 



♦James Orcutt served at West Point and was on duty in command of a Company 
detailed to guard the great chain, the night after Arnold's treachery. The 
American column sent forward for the safety of the Forts, and for the arrest of 
Arnold, passed his guard in their ardor, without replying to his challenge. — 
Sylvanus : History of the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, I, p. 491. 



4 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Amory Austin. 51 

Born in Boston, July 24, 1849. 

Son of Ivers James and Elizabeth lurner Austin : 
grandson of James Trecothic and Catharine Gerry Austin : 
great-grandson of Jonatiian Loring and Hatmah Ivers 
Austin. Jonathan Loring Austin (1748- 1826), patriot 
and soldier, was Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of 
War, 1777; Government Agent in Europe, i778-'8o; 
Major in Langdon's Regiment; Aide to Gen. Sullivan, 
and Secretary to Benjamin Franklin, Minister to France. 

Great-grandson of Elbridge and Ajtn Thompson Gerry. 
Elbridge Gerry (1744- 18 13), statesman and patriot, was 
member of the Massachusetts Committee of Correspon- 
dence, 1773, of the First Provincial Congress, i774-'5, 
and the Continental Congress; and Signer of the 
Declaration of Independence. 

Dudley Baldwin. (Cleveland, o.) loi 

Born in Ballston, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1809. 

Son of Seth and Abigail Kellogg Baldwin. Seth Bald- 
win (1760- 1 828), of Norwich, Vt, served as Private in 
Hossington's Rangers and in Herrick's Green Mountain 
Rangers, i776-'77; was present at Burgoyne's surrender, 
and in frontier militia service, 1 777-'8o ; and was Sergeant- 
Major, 2d Reg't Connecticut Continental Line, 1 781 -'83. 

Ebenezer Burges Ball. h 

Born in Loudon County, Virginia, Mar. 17, 1817. 

Son of Dr. Charles Burges and Lucy T. Potter Ball: 
grandson of Col. Burges and Frances Washington Ball. 
Burges Ball (1749- 1800), of Lancaster Co., Va., was 
Volunteer Aide to Washington, and Captain and Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel commandant in the Continental Line. 

[Great-grandnephew of General Washington.] 

Capt. George Washington Ball. 102 

Born in Loudon County, Virginia, Feb., 19, 1828. Principal of Springwood 
Seminary, i866-'73. 

[Son of Fayette and Majy Thomson Mason Ball. Fay- 
ette Ball (1791-1835), godson of George and Martha 
Washington, to the first of whom he was grandnephew, 
and otherwise variously related, was a subaltern in the 




COL. TIMOTHY MATLACK 

At the ao^e of forty-five 

[Ki;().M I'AIXI INC i;V I'KALK I\ 1 78 1 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 



war of 1812, under his brother Capt. G. W. Ball (1789- 
1812), who died in service.] 

Grandson of Surges and Frances Thornton Washingtoti 
BaH. Col. Burges Ball (1749- 1800), for a time Vol- 
unteer Aide to Washington, subsequently equipped, 
largely at his own cost, the Regiment which he com- 
manded through several campaigns and was captured 
with at Charleston, 1780.* 

Grandson of Thomson and Sarah Chichester Mason. 
Gen. Thomson Mason (1759-1800), of " Hollin Hall," as 
a subaltern of Virginia Troops, "commanded a platoon 
in a pretty action at Williamsburg," May, 1781, and 
his brothers, George Mason and William Mason, were 
Captains in the Virginia Line, the latter in command of 
a Company of Volunteers from Fairfax County in the 
South Carolina campaign of 1781. 

Great-grandson of George and Anne Eilbeck Mason. 
George Mason (i725-'92), of " Gunston Hall," Fair- 
fax Co., Va., patriot. Member of the Committee of 
Safety and the Constitutional Convention, was author 
of the Virginia Declaration of Rights — "the American 
Magna Charta." His brother, Thomson Mason (i727-'8s), 
patriot, was a signer of the Westmoreland Association. 

Great-grandson of Charles and Mildred Thornton 
Washington. Col. Charles Washington (1738- 1799), 
patriot, was a signer of the Westmoreland Association. 

[Great-grandnephew of General Washington.] 

Joseph Josiah Gilbert Ball. 95 

Doorkeeper, U. S. Senate. Born in Orange, Mass., June 19, 1828. 

Son of Josiah and Hannah Albee Ball: grandson of 
Asa and Alice Haywood Albee. Asa Albee (i 753-1843), 
of Mendon, Mass., was Corporal in Capt. Jennison's 
Company of Minutemen, 1775. 

Hon. George T. Beck. (Beckton, Wyoming.) 157 

Speaker of the Wyoming Senate. Born in Lexington, Ky.,June 28, 1855. 

Son of Senator James Burney 2CCidi Jane IV. A. Thorn- 
ton Beck : grandson of George Washington and Margaret 



* CoL. Ball was impoverished by his expenditures in the cause of Liberty, amount- 
ing to at least sixty thousand dollars. See House Report 443, 26th Congress. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Buckner Thornton: great-grandson of John and Jane 
Washhigton Thornton.* John Thornton was Cap- 
tain, 3d Regiment, Virginia Continental Line, 1776. 
Major and Lieutenant-Colonel 1777, and in 1781, as a 
Continental officer under Lafayette, commanded a Regi- 
ment of Militia in the Cornwallis campaign. 

Great-grandson of Ariss and Lucy Hooe Buckner: 
great-great-grandson of Richard and Eliza Ariss Buck- 
ner. Richard Buckner, of "Albany," Westmoreland 
Co., Va., was Member of the Westmoreland Committee 
of Safety, 1 775-'6, and signer of the Westmoreland Asso- 
ciation, 1766. 

[Great-great-grandson of Augustine and Anne Aylett 
Washington, and great-great-grandnephew of General 
Washington.] 

*AUL BECKWITH. 43 

Born in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 22, 1848. 

Son of Frederick Williams and Tullia Chouteau Paul 
Beckwith : grandson of John Williams and Mary Floyd 
Smith Beckwith : great-grandson of John and Martha 
Williams Beckwith. John Beckwith (1752-1835), of 
Prince George Co., Md., was Sergeant in Hazen's Reg- 
iment, Maryland State Troops; his brother, George 
Beckwith (1745- ), was Captain, Bailey's Regiment, 
Maryland State Troops, and was killed in service. . Of his 



* On the day before his death Senator Beck wrote to the Secretary of the Sons of 
the American Revolution, expressing his regret that he was not personally eligible. 
but saying that he was much pleased to know that his son could become a mem- 
ber. An editorial in the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette commented as follows 
upon the incident: 

"The case of Senator Beck, in his relation to the order of the Sons of the Ameri- 
can Revolution, is that of many foreign born citizens. Friends of Senator Beck 
represent his satisfaction as intense over the discovery that his son was eligible to 
membership in such a society. All who enjoyed his acquaintance know that he 
was a devoted American. He loved Scotland, but his allegiance and his heart 
were here. It is not strange. The fla^' had deep meaning for him. It repre- 
sented a land where a poor boy without means, and with only a brave heart and 
strong hands to work with, could rise to a seat in its Senate. But he was proud 
that through his boy he could connect his name with the patriots who achieved 
the independence that the flag represents. And he had the satisfaction of knowing 
not only that his boy was eligible because he could trace lineage back not only to 
a Revolutionary soldier, but to the nearest relatives of the commander-in-chief of 
the American army." 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 



own cousins, William Beckwith, was Major, i6th Mary- 
land Regiment, and William, George, and Benjamin 
Beckwith were privates in Maryland Regiments. 

[Great-grandson of Auguste Chouteau, founder of St. 
Louis, whose son, Gabriel Chouteau, was Lieutenant 
of Missouri State Troops in the war of 1812 ; and grand- 
son of Col. Rene Paul, officer of Engineers under Na- 
poleon I.] ^ 

Great-grandson of T. t-. Smith, private in the Militia 
of Kentucky Co., Va., killed in 1786, and his wife, 
Mary, sister of Col. John Floyd (killed in Indian war, 
1786), Colonel of the Militia of Kentucky Co., Va., 
1781. 

[Great-grandnephew of Gen. Otho Holland Wil- 
liams (1749-1800), of Prince George Co., Md., Adjutant 
General of the Southern Army.] 

Hon. Charles Addison Boutelle, M. C. 158 

(Bangor, Me.) 

Representative in Congress. Born in Damariscotta, Me., Feb. 9, 1839. 

Son of Charles and Lucy A. Curtis Boutelle: grandson 
of John and Lucy Priest Boutelle: great-grandson of 
William and Rachel Wood Boutell. William Boutell 
(1755-1835), of Leominster, Mass., marched to Cam- 
bridge with the Worcester County Minutemen, on the 
alarm of April 19, 1775, and in 1777 served in Colonel 
Cushing's Regiment of Militia, and fought at Ben- 
nington, and in Colonel Stearns' Regiment at Sara- 
toga.* 

Great-grandson of Levi and Mary Brooks Priest. 
Levi Priest (1761-1828), of Lancaster, Mass., enlisted at 
the age of fourteen, and served through the war. He 
was a private in the loth Massachusetts Bay Regiment 
(Continental Line), i777-'8o, and in Hallet's Regiment, 
Massachusetts Militia, in the Rhode Island campaign of 
1780, and served, as Corporal, in Drury's Regiment 
Massachusetts Militia, at West Point, 1781. 



•a copy of his diary, with the history of his experiences at Bennington, has 
been placed by Mr. C. A. Boutelle in the archives of the Society. 



8 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

James THACHER BOUTELLE, M. D. (Hampton, Va.) 134 

Physician. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 6, 1845. 

Son of Captain Charles O. and Susan L. Bartlett 
Boutelle: grandson of William and Susan Thacher 
Bartlett: great-grandson of James Thacher, M, D. 
(17S4-1844), of Barnstable, Mass., Surgeon in the 
Continental Army, in service from Bunker Hill to 
Yorktown, and author of "A Militai'y Journal dur- 
ing the American Revolutionary War," published in 
1823. 

Col. John Bryan Bowman. . 52 

Born in Mercer Co., Ky., Oct. i6, 1824. 

Son of John and Mary Mitchum Bowman: grandson 
of Abraham and Sarah Henry Bowman. Col. Abra- 
ham Bowman (1749-1837), of Fayette Co., Ky., a native 
of Shenandoah Co., Va., served six years and ten 
months as Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel of the 8th 
Regiment, Virginia Continental Line, and was at Ticon- 
deroga, Monmouth, Germantown, and Valley Forge, 
and later with his brother in Kentucky. His brother. 
Col. John Bowman (d; 1784), was County Lieutenant 
and Colonel Commandant of the Militia of Kentucky 
Co., Va., i776-'8i, and engaged in many bloody con- 
flicts with the Indians and their British allies in the 
Western country. Another brother, Major Isaac Bow- 
man (d. 1779), was one of the bravest and most trusted 
officers of Gen. George Rogers Clarke's Expedition for 
the conquest of the West, and was killed in battle at 
Fort Patrick Henry, Aug. 14, 1779.* Another brother, 
Capt. Isaac Bowman, was Quartermaster on the Staff of 
George Rogers Clarke, and while in command of an ex- 
pedition with boats and supplies for the Falls of the 
Ohio, was captured with all his men by Indians, and 
held in long, cruel captivity. He died in Virginia 
in 1826. 



*His Journal and Letters, printed in "Almon's Remembrancer," London, viii, give 
one of the fullest and best accounts of the Expedition. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 



Charles Augustus Boynton. 125 

Journalist. Born in West Stockbridge, Mass., Sept. 30, 1836. 

Gen. Henry Van Ness Boynton. 

Journalist. Born in West Stockbridge, Mass., July 22, 1835. 

Sons of Charles Brandon and Maria Van Buskirk 
Boynton: great-grandsons of Caleb Boynton, Jr. : great- 
great-grandsons of Caleb Boynton, Sr. Caleb Boyn- 
ton, Sr,, and his sons, Caleb Boynton, Jr., and Samuel 
Boynton, of Stockbridge, Mass., served as Privates in 
the Berkshire Minutemen (Col. Patterson's Regiment) 
in the alarm of April 19, 1775, and also in the Canada 
Campaign. Caleb Boynton, Sr., was Private in the 26th 
Regiment of Foot, Massachusetts Continental Line, 
1775. Caleb Boynton, Jr., fought at Bunker Hill. 

Grandsons of Philip Van Ness and Wealthy Ann Day 
Van Buskirk : great-grandsons of Martin Van Buskirk 
(1755-1828), of Cambridge, N. Y., Private of New 
York Militia, in service under Montgomery in the Can- 
ada Campaign. 

Charles Hudson Boynton. 126 

Journalist. Born in Cincinnati, May 19, 1868. 

Son of Charles Augustus and Maretta Hudson Boyn- 
ton, and great-great-great grandson of Caleb Boynton, 
Sr., already mentioned. 

John Ely Brackett, M. D. 76 

Physician. Born in Rochester, Indiana, Dec. 31, 1846. 

Son of Lyman Stebbins and Eliza A. Rannells Brackett : 
grandson of James and Eliza Bennett Ely Brackett : great- 
grandson of Joseph and Mary Nye Brackett. Joseph 
Brackett (1740-1813), of Greenland, New Hampshire, 
was First Lieutenant in the 13th Company, New Hamp- 
shire Cavalry. 

George Lothrop Bradley. 53 

Born in Providence, R. I., Oct. 4, 1846. 

Son of Charles Smith and Sarah Manton Bradley: 
grandson of Charles and Sarah Smith Bradley : great- 



lO SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

grandson of Jonathan K. and Jtidith ThurIo7v Smith : 
great-great-grandson of Hezekiah and Hephzibah Ki?7i- 
ball Smith. The Rev. Hezekiah Smith, D. D. (1737- 
1805), of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was Chaplain in the 
Continental Army, 1776-80. "In encouraging the 
soldiers and ministering to the wounded, he repeatedly 
exposed his life in battle." 

Hon. Walter Lawrence Bragg. 54 

Member of the Inter-State Commerce Commission. Born in Lowndes 
County, Alabama, Feb. 28, 183S. 

Son of Newport and Martha W. Crooke Bragg: 
grandson of Peter and Abigail Brewton Bragg. Peter 
Bragg, a native of Fauquier County, Virginia, fought as 
a private soldier of Virginia troops at the battles of 
Hobkirk's Hill and Guilford Court House, participated 
in the siege of Yorktown, and was present at the 
surrender of Cornwallis. 

Great-grandson of Capt. Andrew Barry, of Spartan- 
burg, S. C, who led his company of partisan troopers 
at The Cowpens, Kettle Creek, Eutaw Springs, and 
Musgrove's Mill, and of Mrs. Kate Barry, patriot, 
scout, and courier, present at the battle of The 
Cowpens.* 

Hon. Clifton Rhodes Breckinridge, M. C. 142 

(Pine Bluff, Arkansas.) 

Representative in Congress from Arkansas, iSSs-'go. Born in Fayette Co., 
Ky., November 22, 1846. 

Son of Gen. John Cabell and Mary C. Biirch Breckin- 
ridge: grandson of Joseph Cabell and Mary Clay Smith 
Breckinridge: great-grandson of John and Mary Hop- 
kins Cabell Breckinridge. The Hon. John Breckin- 
ridge (1760-1806) was a subaltern in the Virginia Militia, 
and a Member of the House of Burgesses, 1780. 

Great-grandson of Rev. Samuel Stanhope and Ann 
Witherspoon Smith : great-great grandson of Rev. John 



* " Every man, woman, and child of the name of Barry who may ever live in our 
great country, from now until the last syllable of time, will only be following the 
light of the highest earthly virtues, in attempting to claim that they carry in their 
veins the blood of Kate Barry !" Speech of the Hon. William C. Preston. 




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[krom a painting in possession of 
hon. clifton r. breckenridge, m. c] 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. II 

WiTHERSPOON, D. D. (i722-'94), of New Jersey, patriot, 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, etc. 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph and Mary Hopkins 
Cabell. Col. Joseph Cabell (i732-'98) commanded the 
Buckingham Militia at the siege of Yorktown. 

[Great-great-grandnephew of Col, Samuel Hopkins, 
of the loth Virginia Continental Line.] 

Gen. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, U. S. A. 55 

Inspector General, U. S. Army. Born in Baltimore, Md., January 14, 1842. 

Hon.Wm. Campbell Preston Breckinridge, M. C. 

(Lexington, Kentucky.) 7 

Representative in Congress from Kentucky. Born in Baltimore, Md., Au- 
gust 28, 1837. 

Sons of Rev. Dr. Robert J. and Sophonisba Preston 
Breckinridge: grandsons of John and Mary Hopkins 
Cabell Breckinridge. The Hon. John Breckinridge 
(1760-1806) was a subaltern of Virginia Militia, and 
subsequently Senator from Kentucky and Attorney 
General of the United States; his brothers, Alexander 
and Robert Breckinridge, were Captains in the Virginia 
Line, and James Breckinridge served with Preston's 
Riflemen at Guilford. 

Grandsons of Francis and Sarah Buchanari Campbell 
Preston: great-grandsons of William and Stisan^ia 
Smith Preston. Col. William Preston (i729-'83), of 
Augusta Co., Va., Member of the Committee of Safety, 
Colonel of Virginia Troops, i775-'83, who received a 
fatal wound at Guilford C. H. 

Great-grandsons of Joseph and Mary Hopkins Cabell. 
Col. Joseph Cabell (i732-'98), of "Sion Hill," Mem- 
ber of the Virginia House of Burgesses, served as Sur- 
geon in the Continental Army, and commanded the 
Buckingham Militia at the siege of Yorktown. 

Great-grandson of William and Elizabeth Henry 
Campbell. Gen. William Campbell (i745-'8i), of 
Washington Co., Va., "the Hero of King's Moun- 
tain," was Captain, Colonel of Riflemen, and Brigadier 
General of Virginia Militia, who died in service in front 



12 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

of Yorktown. His brother-in-law and cousin, Arthur 
Campbell (1742-1811), was Colonel-Commandant of the 
Washington County Militia, and led a detachment to 
King's Mountain, and had a son. Col. John B. Camp- 
bell, U. S. A., who fell in 1814, at Chippewa, where 
he commanded the right wing of Scott's army ; of his 
brothers, Lieut. John Campbell was second in command 
at Long Island Flats; Ensign Robert Campbell and 
Private Patrick Campbell fought at King's Mountain. 

[Great-grandnephew of Patrick Henry, patriot and 
soldier, and of Gen. Samuel Hopkins (1750-1819), Col- 
onel of the loth Reg't., Virginia Continental Line, who 
fought at Princeton, Germantown and Charleston.] 

Col. John Bell Brownlow. 103 

Clerk, Post Office Department. Born in Carter Co., Tenn., October 19, 
1839- 

Son of Hon. William Gannaway and Eliza O'Brien 
Brownlow: grandson of James and Susan Dabney 
Everett O'Brien: great-grandson of Joseph and Agnes 
Gaines Everett: great-great-grandson of James and 
Elizabeth Strotker Gaines. Capt. James Gaines (1742- 
1830), of Chatham Co., N. C, a native of Culpeper 
Co., Va., commanded a company of North Carolina 
Militia at the battle of Guilford C. H., and was Mem- 
ber of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention.* 
[His son was Brig. Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, 
U. S. A. (1777-1849), whose services in the defense 
of American Independence in 1812 were rewarded 
by the thanks of Congress.] 

Great-grandson of Brien O'Brien, of Lancaster Co., 
Pa., a soldier in the Revolution. 

[Great-great-great-grandnephew of Edmund Pendle- 
ton (1721-1803), patriot, Member of the First Conti- 
nental Congress; President of the Virginia Conventions 
of 1775 and 1776; Speaker of the House of Burgesses, 
1777; and President of the Committee of Safety.] 



* Democratic Review, June, iS 




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MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 1 3 

ROBERDEAU BUCHANAN. 26 

Mathematician. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 22, 1839. 

Son of Pay Director McKean and Frances Selina Rober- 
deau Buchanan : grandson of Dr. George and Laetitia 
McKean Buchanan: great-grandson of Andrew and 
Susan Lawson Buchanan. Gen. Andrew Buchanan 
(i734-'86), of Maryland, patriot, was Member of the 
Baltimore Committee of Observation and Brigadier 
General of Maryland State Troops. 

Great-grandson of Thomas and Mary Borden McKean. 
The Hon. Thomas McKean, LL. D. (1734-1817), was 
Member of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765; Chairman 
of the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence; 
Delegate to the Continental Congress from Delaware, 
i774-'83; Signer of the Declaration of Independence 
and the Articles of Confederation; President of Dela- 
ware and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, 1777; Colonel 
of the 4th Battalion, Pennsylvania Associators; President 
of Congress, 1781, etc., etc.; Vice President of the 
Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. 

Grandson of Col. Isaac and Szisan Blair Roberdeau : 
great-grandson of Daniel and Mary Bostwick Rober- 
deau. Gen. Daniel Roberdeau (i727-'95), of Philadel- 
phia, was Member of the Pennsylvania Committee of 
Safety; Colonel 2d Battalion Pennsylvania Associators, 
and Brigadier General of Associators; Delegate to the 
Continental Congress, and Signer of the Articles of 
Confederation. 

Great-grandson of Samuel and Susan Shippen Blair. 
Rev. Samuel Blair, D. D. (1741-1818), was Chaplain in 
the Continental Army, and to the U. S. House of Rep- 
resentatives (ist and 2nd Congresses). 

Great-great-grandson of William and Susannah Harri- 
son Shippen. William Shippen, M. D. (1712-1801), of 
Philadelphia, patriot, was Delegate to the Continental 
Congress. 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth Rogers 
Borden. Col. Joseph Borden, (i7i9-'9i), of New Jersey, 



14 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

was Member of the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, and of 
the Burlington Committee of Safety, and Colonel of a 
Battalion of New Jersey Militia. 

[Great-grandnephew of Archibald Buchanan, Member 
of the Baltimore Committee; of William Buchanan, 
Member of the Baltimore Committee and of the Annap- 
olis Convention; and of William Shippen, M. D., Director 
General of Military Hospitals for the Armies of the United 
States; and great-great-grandnephew of Edward Shippen, 
Member of the Committee of Lancaster Co., Pa.] 

Gen. Franklin George Butterfield. 136 

Chief of Special Examination Division, Bureau of Pensions. Brigadier Gen- 
eral National Guard of Vermont. Born in Rockingham, Vt., May ii, 

1842. 

Son of David and Elmira W. Randall Butterfield: 
grandson of William and Esther Hale Butterfield. Wil- 
liam Butterfield (1757-1834), of Windham Co., Vt., 
was a private in Walker's Company, Barnes' Regiment, 
New Hampshire Militia, fought at Bunker Hill and 
Ticonderoga, and was pensioned in 1832. 

Great-grandson of William Butterfield, Sr. (born 
1695), who, on the alarm of Lexington, though over 
eighty years old, seized his rifle and marched with the 
Minutemen to oppose the advance of the British. The 
next day he handed the weapon to his son William, 
then eighteen years old, saying: "The father is too 
old — the son must go! " 

Lieut. Charles Byrne, U. S. A. 

(Fort Thomas, Kentucky.) 

ist Lieutenant and Adjutant, 6th U. S. Infantry. Born in Fort Vancouver, 
Washington, March 2, 1855. 

Son of Major Bernard M. and Louisa Abert Byrne: 
grandson of Col. John J. and Elle7i M. Stretch Abert: 
great-grandson of John and Sybil Matlack Stretch : great- 
great-grandson of Timothy and Elizabeth Claypole Mat- 
lack. Timothy Matlack (1736-1829), of Pennsylvania, 
patriot and soldier, was Member of the Committee of 
Safety ; Deputy in the State Conference, and Colonel of 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 15 

Militia, 1776; Delegate to the Continental Congress, 
i78o-'87; Secretary of the Council of State, 1781. 

Prof. William Daniel Cabell. i6 

Principal of Norwood Institute. Born in Nelson Co., Va., January 13, 1834. 

Son of Mayo and Mary C. B. Daniel Cabell: grand- 
son of Col. William and Anne Carrington Cabell. Col. 
William Cabell, Jr. (1760-1822), was Major of Vir- 
ginia Militia, 1781. Of his brothers, Samuel Jordan 
Cabell was Captain, 6th Regiment, Virginia Provin- 
cials, 1776, Lieut. Colonel in the Continental Line, and 
a prisoner at Charleston, 1780 ; Joseph Cabell, patriot, 
was Member of the Convention of 1775, and Colonel of 
the Buckingham Militia at Yorktown; John Cabell was 
Member of the Conventions of 1775 and 1776 ; and 
Nicholas Cabell was an officer under Lafayette. 

Great-grandson of Dr. William and Margaret Jordan 
CabelL Dr. William Cabell, Sr. (i73o-'98), patriot, 
was a Signer of the Association of 1769, a Member of 
the Convention of 1775, and one of the Virginia Com- 
mittee of Safety. 

Great-grandson of Paul and Margaret Read Carring- 
ton. Judge Paul Carrington (1733-1818), patriot, was 
Member of the Virginia Convention of 1775, and one of 
the Virginia Committee of Safety. Col. Clement 
Carrington, wounded at Eutaw Springs, and Lieut. 
George Carrington, of Lee's Legion, were his sons. 

Great-great-grandson of Col. Clement Read, of 
Lunenburg Co., Va., patriot, and great-grandnephew 
of Col. Isaac Read (i746-'7S), of the 4th Regiment, 
Virginia Continental Line, Member of the Conventions 
of 1774 and 1775, and Signer of the Williamsburg Asso- 
ciation, who fought at White Plains, Trenton and 
Princeton, and died in the service; and of Col. Thomas 
Read (1745-1817), of Charlotte Co., Va., patriot, 
Member of the Conventions of 1775 and 1776, and 
of the Constitutional Convention, who commanded 
the Charlotte Militia on their march to the Dan, 
in 1781. 



i6 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Capt. Alfred Ball Carter. 109 

(Woodbury, Georgia.) 

Born at " Mountain View," Fairfax Co., Va., November 25, 1823. 

Son of William Fitzhugh and Elizabeth L. ^a// Carter: 
grandson of Spencer Mottrom and Elizabeth Lando7i 
Carter Ball: great-grandson of Spencer Mottrom and 
Elizabeth Waring Ball. Spencer Mottrom Ball, of 
Westmoreland Co., Va., was a signer of the West- 
moreland Association, Feb. 27, 1766, and the Williams- 
burg Association, June 22, 1770; his grandfather, Joseph 
Ball, was uncle to Mary Ball, the mother of Washington. 

Great-great-grandson of Francis Waring, of West- 
moreland Co., Va., signer of the Association of 1766. 

Rev. John White Chickering. 56 

Professor in the National Deaf Mute College. Born in Boston, Sept. 17, 1831. 

Son of Rev. John White and Frafices E. Knowlton 
Chickering: grandson of Joseph and Betsy White 
Chickering: great-grandson of John and Esther Kettell 
White. John White (1749-1830) was " one of the small 
patriotic band who resisted the British forces at the 
bridge at Concord, April 9, 1775." At the capture of 
Burgoyne he was present as a volunteer. 

Grandson of Joseph and Relief Stratton Knowlton. 
Joseph Knowlton, of Phillipston, was a private in the 
Massachusetts Militia. 

Alonzo Howard Clark. 46 

Curator in the U. S. National Museum. Born in Boston, April 30, 1850. 

Son of Thatcher and Abby Carnes Clark : grandson of 
John and Abigail Eillie Carnes: great-grandson of 
Thomas Jenner 2iX\d Jemima Johnson Carnes; great-great- 
grandson of Edward -^w^ Joanna Jenner Carnes. Capt. 
Thomas Jenner Carnes (1753-1802), of Boston, was 
Cadet and Lieutenant in Thomas Wait Foster's Com- 
pany of Col. Richard Gridley's Regiment of Artillery, 
Mass. Line, May, 1775, to January, 1776; Captain of 
Marines of the ship "Commander," in the Penobscot 
expedition sent out by Massachusetts in 1779 : his brother 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 1 7 



Edward Carnes, was Captain in the Boston Regiment 
of Militia, 1776. 

Major Edward Carnes (i730-'82), of Boston, was 
Member of the Sons of Liberty, Major of the Boston Regi- 
ment of Militia in 1776, and Head of Ward 6 under ap- 
pointment of Committee of Safety of Massachusetts. 
Of his brothers, the Rev. John Carnes was Chaplain in 
the Continental Army, and Joseph Carnes a Member of 
the Sons of Liberty. 

Appleton Prentiss Clark. 120 

Lawyer. Born in Boston, Mass., April 19, 1826. 

Member also of the Massachusetts Society, S. A. R. 

Son of George and Charlotte Prentiss Clark: grand- 
son of Isaac and Martha Clark Clark. Isaac Clark 
(1760- 1 836), of Hubbardston, Mass., was Lieutenant in 
the Massachusetts Militia. 

Great-grandson of John and Elizabeth Norcross Clark. 
CaptainJohn Clark (1730-1816), of Hubbardston, Mass.. 
was Member of the Convention at Concord, Mass., in 
October, 1774, when "active preparations were made for 
the war which was seen to be inevitable," and Member 
of ist Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. 

Great-grandson of George Clark, of Rutland, Mass., 
private in Rutland Company of Massachusetts Militia. 

Grandson of Appleton and Silence Conant Prentiss: 
great-grandson of Colonel William Conant (1727- 
181 1), of Charlestown, Mass., 2d Lieutenant-Colonel of 
I St Reg't Massachusetts Militia, 1774, afterwards Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel 4th Massachusetts Reg't. It was with 
CoL Wm. Conant and others that Paul Revere planned the 
hanging of Signal Lanterns in steeple of North Church, 
Boston, to give warning of the movement of the British 
troops toward Concord.* 

[Great-grandson of Joshua and Margaret Appleton 
Prentiss. Rev. Joshua Prentiss, of Holliston, Mass., was 
an ardent patriot: three of his sons were in the Revolu- 



'See Letter of Paul Revere to Jeremy Belknap in the Proceedings of the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society, 1878. 



1 8 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

tionary Army, viz: — Rev. Thomas Prentiss, Chaplain of 
Massachusetts Troops at Roxbury Camp; Hon. Joshua 
Prentiss, of Marblehead, a pensioner. Lieutenant in Cap- 
tain Merritt's Company at Cambridge Camp; and Cap- 
tain Henry Prentiss (one of the Boston Tea Party), who 
was with the Massachusetts Troops for a time stationed 
at Trenton, N. J.] 

Great-great-grandson of Rev. Nathaniel Appleton, 
D. D. (1693- 1 784), of Cambridge, patriot, for sixty-two 
years a Director of Harvard College, who "exercised a 
powerful influence during the Revolutionary War in 
the Church, College and State." 

Allen Culling Clark. 122 

Lawyer. Born at Philadelphia, Pa., February 23, 1858. 

Member of the Massachusetts Society, S. A. R. 

Appleton Prentiss Clark, Jr. 121 

Architect. Born at Washington, D. C, November 13, 1865. 

Member of the Massachusetts Society, S. A. R. 

Sons of Appleton Prentiss and Elizabeth Woodman 
Clark, with lineage as shown above. 

Grandsons of Andrew and Hannah Pierce Bacon 
Woodinan : great-grandsons of Andrew and Mary Wood- 
man Woodman: great-great-grandsons of Joshua and 
Lois Woodinan Woodman. Joseph Woodman (1736- 
1827), of Sanbornton, N. H., was Captain in the New 
Hampshire Militia. 

CjHorge Lafayette Clark. 57 

Lawyer. Born in Chazy, N. Y., September 14, 1825. 

Son of Nathaniel and Mary Stiles Clark: grandson of 
Asa and Olive Rood Stiles. Asa Stiles (1768-1836). of 
Hebron, Conn., served as private in the ist Reg't Conn. 
Militia. 1780, at Middletown and New London, and in 
1782 volunteered "for the war," in Gilbert's Reg't 
Conn. Militia. In the war of 1812 he served in the i ith 
U. S. Infantry, and fought at the invasion of Platts- 
burgh. in 1814, by the side of his son Asa Stiles, Jr. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 19 

His son, Ezra Stiles, fought at Lundy's Lane and 
Niagara. 

[Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Clark, who 
fought under Wolfe at the capture of Quebec, in 1759. ji. 

Daniel B. Clarke, M. D. si 

President, National Banl< of the Republic, Washington. Born in Washing- 
ton City, March 3, 1825. 

Son of Walter and Rachel Boone Clarke: grandson of 
William and Mary A. Simjns Clarke. William Clarke 
was 2d Lieutenant in the yth Reg't, Maryland Conti- 
nental Line, 1777, and great-grandson of Hon. Robert 
Clarke (d. 1664), Member of the Maryland Assembly of 
1649, which passed the first act for religious toleration. 

Grandson of John Boone, of Charles County, Md., 
Lieutenant, 3d Reg't, Maryland Continental Line. 

Prof. Frank Wigglesworth Clarke. 42 

Chief Chemist, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Boston, Mass., March 19, 
1847. 

Son of Henry W. and Abby M. Fisher Clarke: grand- 
son of Samuel and Sarah Wigglesworth Clarke: great- 
grandson of Michael and Charlotte Goldsmith Wiggles- 
worth : great-great-grandson of Edward and Bridget 
Cogswell Wigglesworth. Col. Edward Wigglesworth 
(1742-1826), of Essex Co., Mass., commanded a Mass- 
achusetts Continental Regiment in the operations about 
Lake Champlain, and was at Monmouth and Valley 
Forge. 

[Great-great-grandson of Elizabeth Gray, who carried 
arms and ammunition for the American troops through 
the British lines about Boston.] 

CoL. Isaac Edwards Clarke. 172 

Editor in U. S. Bureau of Education. Born in Deerfield, Mass.. July i, 1830. 

Son of Isaac and Harriet Avisden Clarke: grandson 
of John and Sarah Graves Amsden : great-grandson of 
Aaron and Mary Nicholson Graves. Aaron Graves 
(d. 1819), of Palmer, Mass., was Captain, 2d Militia 



20 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Company of Palmer, and in 1782, Major, ist Reg't 
Hampshire Militia.* 

Lieut. Powhatan Henry Clarke, U. S. A. 176 

(Fort Bowie, Arizona.) 

Second Lieutenant, loth Cavalry, U. S. A. Born in Rapides, La., October 9. 
1862. 

Son of Prof. Powhatan and Lo7use F. Boyce Clarke, of 
Baltimore: grandson of Colin and Mary Goode Lyle 
Clarke, of " Warner Hall," Gloucester Co., Va. : great- 
grandson of Col. James Clarke, of "Keswick," Pow- 
hatan Co., Va., who commanded a Regiment at the 
battle of Craney Island, and who, as a youth, served in 
the Revolution. 

Great-grandson of James and Sally Bland Goode 
Lyle: great-great-grandson of Robert and Sally Bland 
'Goode. Col. Robert Goode (1743-1809), of "Whitby," 
Chesterfield Co., Va., was Captain, Chesterfield Militia, 
i775-'6, and later Major and Colonel of Militia. His 
brother, Hon. Samuel Goode, M. C. (i 756-1822), of 
"Whitby," Mecklenburg Co., Va., was Lieutenant of 
Militia, 1775, and Member of the House of Burgesses, 
i779-'8i. Theirgreat-grandfather, John Goode (d. 1711), 
of "Whitby," was a soldier under Bacon in the Vir- 
ginia Rebellion of 1676. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Richard and Elizabeth 
Harrison Bland. Richard Bland (i7io-'76), of "Jor- 
dans," "the Cato of the Revolution," took part in all 
the early Virginia Conventions, and was Delegate to the 
Continental Congress of 1774: his nephews, Theod- 
KicK Bland and John Bannister, were Colonels in the 
Continental Army and members of the First Congress, 
and his grandnephew was "Light Horse" Harry Lee, 
of Lee's Legion. 

Horace Coleman, M. D. 59 

Bureau of Pensions. Born in Troy, C, December 24, 1824. 

Son of Dr. Asa and Mary Keifer Coleman : grandson 

* Temple's History of Palmer, Mass., 1889. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 21 

of Dr. Asaph and Emiice Hol/is^er Coleman. Dr. Asaph 
Coleman (1747-1817) was Surgeon in the Connecticut 
State Line, Belden's Regiment, 1778, Woodbridge's 
Regiment, 1779. 

Great-grandson of Noah and Afary Wright Coleman. 
Dr. Noah Coleman, of Lebanon, Conn., was Surgeon's 
Mate in the 26. Reg't Connecticut Line, ly-jy-Si, and 
an original member of the Connecticut Society of the 
Cincinnati. 

Benjamin Azariah Colonna. 58 

Assistant, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Born in Accomac Co., Va., 
October 17, 1843. 

Son of John Wilkins and Margaret Jones Colonna : 
grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth Beach Colonna. 
Benjamin Colonna (1763-1857), of Accomac, Va., served 
in the Accomac Militia, first as a powder-boy, and later 
as a private. He also served in the War of 1812 as a 
private, in local defense, and received a pension. 

Great-grandson of Major and Joice Hutchiyison Co- 
lonna. Major Colonna (1736-1811), of Accomac Co., 
Va., was one of the irregular force employed in repelling 
the raids of foraging parties from the sea coast of the 
Eastern Shore of Virginia, and participated in many en- 
gagements. In 1 78 1 he was among the soldiers gathered 
about West Point to repel the advance of Cornwallis, 
and remained on duty until after the surrender at York- 
town. 

Charles William Coombs. ss 

Born in Knox Co., C, October 22, 1837. 

Son of William and Barbara E. McCray Coombs: 
grandson of John and Nancy Vennaiider Coombs. 
John Coombs (1754-1849), of Loudon Co., Va., was 
private in the Virginia State Regiment commanded by 
Col. John Alexander and Col. Dabney, and was present 
at the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Corn- 
wallis. 



22 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Lieut. Calvin Duvall Cowles, U. S. A. 153 

Lieutenant, U. S. Army. Born in Elkville, N. C.,June 26, 1849. 

Son of Calvin Josiah and Martha Temperance Duvall 
Cowles: grandson of Simpson and Nancy Caroline 
Carson Duvall: great-grandson of Andrew and Ter7iper- 
ance Young Carson. Andrew Carson (1756- 1840), of 
Iredell Co., N. C, was Private and Captain of Partisan 
Rangers, i776-'8i, in service against the Carolina Tories 
and the Cherokee Indians, and in the engagements at 
Ninety-six, Shallow Ford and Briar Creek.* Pensioned 
by Act of Congress, March 4, 1831. 

William Van Zandt Cox. 15 

Chief Clerk, U. S. National Museum. Born in Zanesville, C, June 12, 1852. 

Son of Col. Thomas Jefferson and Lucy Ann Van 
Zandt Cox: grandson of Ezekiel Taylor and Maria 
Matilda' Sullivan Cox: great-grandson of James and 
Ann Potts Cox. James Cox (1753-1810), of Monmouth 
Co., N. J., Brigadier General of Militia and commander 
of the Monmouth Brigade, entered the service as a pri- 
vate in 1770, and served at Monmouth and German- 
town : his brother, Asher Cox (1746-1812), of Monmouth 
Co., N. J., was private in Capt. Barnes Smock's Troop, 
Light Dragoons, New Jersey Militia. 

Capt. Robert Craig, U. S. A. 23 

Captain, Signal Corps, U. S. Army. Born in Lehigh Gap, Pa., January 20, 
1843. 

Son of Thomas and Katharine Hagenbicch Craig. 
Grandson of Thomas and Dorothy Briner Craig. 
Thomas Craig (1740-1832), of Craig's Settlement, 
Northampton Co., Pa., entered the service as Captain 
in 1776 ; was in the Canada Campaign; was appointed 
Lieutenant Colonel (1776), and was Colonel (i777-'83) 
of the 3d Pennsylvania Regiment, present at the battles 
of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, and at 
Valley Forge; subsequently, 1783, Lieutenant of North- 



* a MS. narrative by Andrew Carson, in the archives of the Society, gives interest- 
ing details of partisan warfare in the South. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 23 



ampton Co., and in 1789 Major General, 7th Division, 
Pennsylvania Militia. 

Henry Lyon Crane. (Cincinnati, Ohio.) 96 

Merchant. Born in New Albany, Ind., August 8, 1835. 

Son of Israel Cooper and Hannah Lyon Crane : grand- 
son of Israel and Polly Cooper Crane. Israel Crane 
(i755-'95). of Newark, N. J., was Cornet in the Essex 
Troop of Light Horse, which served at the battle of 
Long Island, and in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
campaigns; his brothers were also in the service, viz: — 
Abraham Crane, private, Essex Militia; Jonathan Crane, 
private, ist Reg't New Jersey Continental Line; Aaron 
Crane, private, 2d Reg't New Jersey Continental Line; 
and Capt. Nathaniel Camp, 2d Reg't Essex Militia, 
was his brother-in-law.* 

[Step-grandson of Obadiah Meeker (1738-1829), 
Cornet and Captain of the Essex Troop of Light Horse.] 

[Grandnephew of John Cooper, private, Morris 
County Militia; William Cooper, private, 2d New 
Jersey Establishment; and David Kirkpatrick, of Mine 
Brook, wounded in 1780; great-grandnephew of Capt. 
Benjamin Cooper, New Jersey Militia, and, by step- 
relationship, of Col. Cornelius Ludlow, Eastern Bat- 
talion, Morris Militia.] 

[Great-grandson of Henry Lyon, of " Lyon's Farms," 
private in the company of the 2d Reg't Essex Militia, f 
commanded by his own cousin, Capt. Abraham Lyon, 
also Captain 4th Battalion, 2d Establishment, New 
Jersey Continental Line.] 

Gen. James Jackson Dana, U. S. A. 60 

Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. A. Retired. Born 
in Waltham, Mass., April 9, 1821. 

Son of Samuel Luther and Ann Theodora Willard 
Dana; grandson of Luther and Lticy Giddings Dana. 

* Washington visited Captain Camp's home in Newark, while on the march in 1777, 
and gave him a six-pound howitzer, now in the Washington Museum at Morris- 
town. 

•JThis claim is a provisional one. 



24 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Luther Dana (1763-1822), of Groton, Mass., who en- 
tered the U. S. Navy as Midshipman in 1780, and served 
until the close of the war. 

Mills Dean. 138 

Lawyer. Born in Spartanburg, S. C, April 3, 1847. 

Son of Hosea Jefferson and Mary Owen Dean: grand- 
son of John and Mary Farrow Dean : great-grandson of 
Thomas and Rebecca Mountjoy Farrow. Thomas Far- 
row (1754-1843), of South Carolina, Captain of the 
"Spartan Band," a troop of partisan cavalry, engaged 
in constant struggles with the tories, as well as at the 
Cowpens, Musgrove's Mills, the sieges of Augusta and 
Ninety-six. He was wounded several times, and se- 
cured a pension. Three or four of his brothers were in 
the troop, from which the Spartanburg district received 
its name.* 

Great-grandson of Joel and Mary Brockman Dean. 
Joel Dean was private in the South Carolina Militia, 
and his son, John, married Mary Farrow — "the belle 
of Enoree." 

William Augustin De Caindry. 175 

Chief Clerk, Office of the Commissary General of Subsistence, U. S. A. 
Born in Cobb Co., Ga., IVlarch 4, 1843. 

Son of Daniel Augustin and Mary Hudson McClain 
De Caindry : grandson of Daniel and Constance Denes 
De Caindry: great-grandson of Augustin and Mary 
Shields Rouxelin-Denos. Augustin Rouxelin-De;nos 
(1741-1806), a native of Caen in Calvados, France, en- 
listed in the Regiment d' Infanterie de Cambresis, March 
5, 1760; attained the rank of Lieutenant, August 27, 
1762, and returned to France, 1764, after four years' 
service in the Isle of France. Transferred to the 
Regijnent de Saintojige, 1775, he became Capitaine en 
Second, 1779, and in 1780 embarked for America with 
the army of Rochambeau. He was promoted to be 

*An interesting narrative in MS. is deposited in the archives of the Society. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 25 

Capitaine-Commandant, March 5, 1781, and having 
rendered distinguished service at the siege of Yorktown, 
was made a Chevalier de St. Louis* He was discharged 
at Baltimore, August 3, 1782, and settled in Yori^ Co., 
Va. He died in Baltimore, January 6, 1806. 

Hon. Josiah Dent. hs 

Lawyer, and ex-President Board of Commissioners, District of Columbia. 
Born in Charles Co., Md., August 26, 1817. 

Son of Dr. William Hatch and Catherine Bratiwer 
Dent: grandson of Hatch and Judith Poston Dent: 
great-grandson of John and Violetta Winnett Dent. 
Hatch Dent, of Charlotte Hall, Md., ist Lieutenant, 
I St Battalion of Light Infantry, Maryland Provincials, 
was captured at the battle of Long Island, and confined 
for two years in a British prison-ship. John Dent, of 
Charles Co., Md., patriot and soldier, was Member of 
the Maryland Convention of 1775, signer of the Articles 
of Association, and Brigadier General of Militia, Third 
District of Maryland. 

Hon. John W. Douglass. 124 

President, Board of Commissioners, District of Columbia. Born in Philadel- 
phia, Pa., October 25, 1827. 

Son of Joseph M. and Martha A. Watkinson Douglass: 
grandson of John and Ha^inah Miller Douglass: great- 
grandson of John and Christina Holstein Douglass. 
John Douglass (died 1841), was Captain of a Company 
of Riflemen of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, 
i776.t 

James Taylor DuBois. 92 

Editor of "The Inventive Age." Born in Great Bend, Pa., April 17, 1851. 

Capt. Richard Catlin DuBois. 62 

First Lieutenant, U. S. Army, retired. Born in Great Bend, Pa., April i6, 
1S42. 



*A photographic fac-simile of his diploma is in the possession of the Society. 

t Captain Douglass' commission, signed by Benjamin Franklin as President of the 

Pennsylvania Convention, is in the possession of his great-grandson. A later 

commission was signed by Washington. 



26 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Sons of Joseph and B?nroy Taylor DuBois: grandsons 
of Abraham and Julia Bowles DuBois: great-grandsons 
of Minna and Marie Pittcnger DuBois. Minna DuBois, 
of Somerset Co., N. J., was Sergeant, id Battalion, 
New Jersey Militia, and his brother, Nicholas DuBois 
(1753-1824), a private in the same Battalion. 

Great-great-grandsons of Abraham DuBois (1726- 
1793). of Somerset Co., N. J., was Captain, 2d 
Battalion, New Jersey Militia.* 

Grandsons of Benjamin and Foster Taylor : 

great-grandsons of James and Salome Partridge Taylor. 
James Taylor (1762-1832), of Franklin, Mass., en- 
listed in the Continental Army, and served at Valley 
Forge, and commanded a volunteer regiment at 
the battle of Plattsburg, 18 12. 

Great-great-grandsons of Benjamin Taylor, a soldier 
in the old French and Indian Wars, wounded and cap- 
tured at Fort Oswego in 1756, and in prison until 1759. 

James Francis Duhamel. 90 

Born in Washington, D. C, August 5, 1858. 

Son of William J. C. and Elizabeth Hill Kennedy 
Duhamel : grandson of William and Heyirietta J. Hill 
Kennedy: great-grandson of Henry and Hester Brooke 
Hill. Henry Hill, Jr. (d. 1822), of Prince George Co., 
Md., was Captain in Colonel Marbury's Battalion, 
Maryland Continental Line, lyj-j-Si, attached to Small- 
wood's Flying Camp, in service at Trenton and Ger- 
mantown. Three of his sons served in the War of 
1812. 

Grandson of James and Martha Seth Duhamel: great- 
grandson of William C. Seth (1757-1815), of Qiieen 
Anne Co., Md., who was Adjutant in Capt. Paul Ben- 
talon's Company, Pulaski's Legion, (i778-'8i), and 
was Captain of Maryland Militia in the East Maryland 
campaign of 1814, to repel British raids. 



= His son, Abraham DuBois, in 1783 made the first dies for the American coin- 
age in the U. S. Mint in Philadelphia. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 27 



[James Duhamel served in the 35th Regiment, Mary- 
land Militia, in the war of 1812.] 

Robert Edward Earll. 6i 

Curator, U. S. National Museum. Born in Waukegan, III., August 24, 1853. 

Son of Robert Cunningham and Sarah Montgomery 
Earll: grandson of Josiah and Electa Crissey Earle: 
great-grandson of Reuben and Mary Harrington Earle. 
Reuben Earle (1747-1823), of Leicester, Mass., a gun- 
smith, was a member of the Company of Militia which 
marched to Cambridge, under command of Captain 
Thomas Newhall, on the alarm of April 19, 1775. 
Oliver Earle, private, and James Earle, Captain, 
Massachusetts Militia, were his brothers. 

Prof. John Robie Eastman, U. S. N. 36 

Professor of Mathematics, U. S. Navy. Born in Andover, N. H., July 29, 
1836. 

Son of Royal F. and Sophronia Mayo Eastman : grand- 
son of John and Lydia Laha Mayo: great-grandson of 
Asa and Sarah Seabury Mayo: great-great-grandson of 
Thomas and Elizabeth Wing Mayo. Thomas Mayo 
(1725-1778), of Harwich, Mass., was member of a 
privateersman's crew; was captured by a British man- 
of-war, and confined for many months in a prison-ship 
in New York Harbor: he died in Newport, R. I., in 
1778, on his way home after his discharge from the 
prison-ship, and as a result of his confinement. 

Otis Judd Eddy, M. D. 87 

Physician and Medical Reviewer, U. S. Pension Bureau. Born in Ithaca, N. Y., 
June 30, 1846. 

Son of James and Maria Judd Eddy: grandson of 
Otis and Harriet Tracy Eddy : great-grandson of Wil- 
lard and Dorcas Matthewso7i Eddy. Willard Eddy 
(1760-1854), of Gloucester, R. 1., soldier and privateers- 
man, 1 776-' 80 ; was private of Rhode Island State Troops, 
in service at White Plains; sailor on the privateers 
"Boston" and "Providence," captured at the surrender of 



28 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Charleston, May, 1780, and discharged at Philadelphia, 
June, 1780. A pensioner. 

Hon. Matthew Gault Emery. 45 

President, Second National Bank of Washington. Born in Pembroke, 
N. H., September 28, 1818. 

Son of Jacob and Jane Gault Emery : grandson of 
Joseph and Hannah Stickney Emery. Joseph Emery 
(died 1821), was First Lieutenant, 2d Co., 9th Regiment 
(Sept. 5, 1775), Captain, 12th Co., 13th Regiment, New 
Hampshire Militia (March 4, 1779), on duty as recruit- 
ing officer.* 

Hon. Charles James Faulkner. 139 

(Martinsburg, West Virginia.) 

U. S. Senator. Born in Martinsburg, Va., September 2i, 1847. 

Son of Hon. Charles J. and Boyd Faulkner: 

grandson of James and Sarah Mackey Faulkner. [Major 
James Faulkner (1776-1817] commanded the artillery at 
the battle of Craney Island, 1813.] 

[Grandson of Gen. Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), of 
Berkeley Co., Va., Colonel of 4th Virginia Militia, 
War of 1812.] 

Great-grandson of William Mackey (1738-1812), of 
Berkeley Co., Va., who was Captain in the Virginia 
Continental Line, and was wounded at the head of 
his company at Brandywine, and imprisoned. An 
original member of the Virginia Society of the Cincin- 
nati. 

[Grandnephew of Major Andrew Hunter Holmes, 
killed at the battle of Mackinac, i8i2-'i4.] 

Granville Fernald. no 

Journalist. Born in Otisfield, Me., January 23, 1828. 

Son of Otis and Sally Wight Fernald: grandson of 
Timothy and Betsy Ray Fernald: great-grandson of 



■ His commissions, with the curious colonial seal of New Hampshire, are in the 
possession of his grandson, who has deposited photographs of them in the 
archives of the Society. 



MEMBERSKIP ROLL. 29 



David and Eunice Whiting Ray. Great-grandson of 
David Ray (i 742-1822), of Wrentham, Mass., Sergeant 
of Minutemen at Lexington, and subsequently, as Ser- 
geant and Lieutenant, lyyG-'yg, in service at Ticon- 
deroga and in the Rhode Island expeditions: a prisoner 
in Canada, and exchanged June 28, 1777. 

Grand^n of Benjamin and Elizabeth Hancock Wight: 
great-grandson of Joseph Hancock, of Wrentham, Me., 
private in Capt. Lemuel Kollock's company of Col. 
John Smith's Regiment of Minutemen, who marched to 
Concord on the alarm of April 19, 1775. 

Edmund Flagg. 94 

(West End, Fairfax County, Virginia.) 

Lawyer. Born in Wiscasset, Me., November 24, 1815. 

Son of Edmund and Harriet Pay son Flagg: grandson 
of Josiah and Anna Webster Flagg. Josiah Flagg 
(i748-'99), of Chester, N. H., was Private in Capt. 
Moses Baker's Company of Volunteers: he joined the 
Northern Continental Army at Saratoga, Sept., 1777, 
and was Lieutenant of Militia in service about Suffolk, 
1781, in the Continental Line, i777-'8i, serving one 
year as Adjutant under Washington. 

Grandson of David and Naiicy Ingersoll Payson. 
CoL. David Payson, of Wiscasset, Me., was "private 
and corporal in the Revolutionary War," as shown in 
the Records of the Pension Office (Book H, Vol. I, 
p. 217). 

Great-grandson of John Webster, of Chester, N. H., 
"Captain of a company of New Hampshire Troops, 
1747, for the protection of the inhabitants of Penny 
Cook;" and Colonel of the 5th Regiment, New Hamp- 
shire Militia. 

Surgeon James Milton Flint, U. S. N. 37 

Surgeon, U. S. Navy. Born in Hillsborougii, N. H., Feb. 7, 1838. 

Son of Amos and Mary Stickney Flint: grandson of 
James and Mary Baldwin Stickney : great-grandson of 



30 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Abraham Stickney. Lieut. Abraham Stickney (1733- 
), of Dracut, Mass., served in CoL David Green's 
Regiment, Massachusetts Militia (Tewkesbury), 1776. 
and in 1778, in the Rhode Island Campaign, in Regi- 
ments commanded by Col. Drury and Col. Mcintosh. 
Great-grandson of Capt. Joshua Baldwin, Lieutenant 
of Tewkesbury Minutemen at the Lexington Alarm, 
April 19, 1776, and Captain of 8th Co., 7th Reg't, Mid- 
dlesex Militia, Col. Simeon Spalding. 

Hon. William Pierce Frye, LL. D. 32 

(Lewiston, Maine.) 

United States Senator. Born in Lewiston, Me., September 2, 1830. 

Son of John M. and Alice M. Davis Frye: grandson 
of Dean and Joaiina March Frye: great-grandson of 
Joseph and Mary Robinson Frye. Capt. Joseph Frye 
resigned a Captaincy in the British Army to accept a 
commission in the Continental Service. His brother, 
Lieut. Nathaniel Frye, served through the war in the 
Continental Army. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Joseph and Mehitable 
Poor Frye. Gen. Joseph Frye (171 1-1794), of Andover, 
Mass., and Fryeburg, Me., was Ensign in Hale's Reg't 
at the Siege of Louisburg, 1745, Colonel under Montcalm 
in the French and Indian Wars, and Major General of 
Massachusetts Troops, 1775, and at the age of sixty- 
four, in 1776, Brigadier General in the Continental 
Army. His cousin. Gen. James Frye (1709-1776), of 
Andover, Mass., commanded the Essex Regiment at 
Bunker Hill, and a Brigade during the Siege of Boston. 

Edward Miner Gallaudet, LL. D. 47 

President of the National Deaf Mute College, Kendall Green. Born in 
Hartford, Conn., February 5, 1837. 

Son of Thomas Hopkins and Sophia /^t'Z£V^r Gallaudet: 
grandson of Peter Wallace and Jarie Hopkins Gallaudet. 
Peter Wallace Gallaudet (1756-1843) was private 
secretary to General Washington during the New Jersey 
campaign. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 31 

Grandson of Miner and Rachel Hall Fowler: great- 
grandson of Noah and Deborah Pendleton Fowler. 
Col. Noah Fowler (1735-1825), of Guilford, Conn., 
was Captain of Minutemen, and marched to the relief 
of Boston, April 19, 1775, and Captain, 7th Conn. 
Militia, i777-'82, in service against Tryon in 1779; 
in 1782 he was Lieutenant Colonel commandant of the 
28th Regiment, Conn. State Troops. 

Great-grandson of Thomas and Alice Howard Hop- 
kins: great-great-grandson of Samuel and Alice Hooker 
Howard: great-great-great-grandson of Nathaniel 
Hooker: great-great-great-great-grandson of Rev. Sam- 
uel Hooker: great-great-great -great-great-grandson of 
Rev. Thomas Hooker (1586-1647), first minister of the 
first church of Hartford, "where he was the first in 
America to advocate the setting up of free, constitu- 
tional democracy on this continent." 

Henry Wise Garnett. 132 

Lawyer. Born in Washington City, March 31, 1849. 

Son of Dr. Alexander Yelverton Peyton and Mary 
Elizabeth Wise Garnett: grandson of Muscoe and Maria 
Battaille Garnett: great-grandson of Muscoe and Grace 
Fenton Mercer Giirnett Muscoe Garnett (1736-1803), 
of Essex Co., Va., patriot, was Member of the Essex 
County Committee of Safety. 

Grandson of Governor Henry Alexander and Ann 
Eliza Jennings Wise: great-grandson of John and Sar-ah 
Corbin Cropper 'Wxsq '. great-great-grandson of John and 
Margaret Pettit Cropper. Gen. John Cropper (1756- 
1821), of "Bowman's Folly," Accomac Co., Va., 
patriot and soldier, was Captain, 9th Regiment, Va. 
Regulars (Feb. 5, 1776), Major, 7th Regiment, Va. Con- 
tinental Line (Jan. 4, 1777), in service at Brandywine, 
Germantown and Monmouth; and Lieutenant Colonel 
(Oct. 27, 1777) until August 16, 1779, when he resigned. 
He commanded the nth Va. Regiment at Valley Forge, 
and after his resignation was Colonel of the Militia o. 



32 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Accomac County until 1782, and was wounded and 
imprisoned at "the Battle of the Barges," November 28, 
1782.* He was an original member of the Virginia 
Society of the Cincinnati. 

John Rowzee Garrison. 64 

Deputy First Controller, U. S. Treasury. Born in Stafford Co., Va., 
August 27, 1838. 

Son of John Rowzee and Frances Hudson Garrison : 
grandson of Moses and Nancy Atchison Garrison : great- 
grandson of John and Betsy Ennis Garrison. John 
Garrison (1740- ), of Overwharton Parish, Stafford 
Co., Va., a private soldier, was present at the siege of 
Yorktown. His son, Moses Garrison, was a soldier 
in the War of 1812. 

[Great-grandson of Privates Hugh Atchison and John 
Rogers, of the Virginia Line or Militia, and nephew of 
Fielding Hudson, a soldier in the War of 18 12.] 

Gen. Horatio Gates Gibson, U. S. A. 17 

Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. A. Born in Baltimore, Md., 
May 22, 1827. 

Son of John and Elizabeth Jameson Gibson : grand- 
son of Horatio Gates and Catharine ^'A^z'^// Jameson : 
great-grandson of David and Elizabeth Davis Jameson. 
David Jameson, M. D., of York, Pa., patriot and soldier, 
fought in the French and Indian War of i755-'7, and 
contributed money and supplies to the Continental 
Army and to the Continental Congress, while in session 
at York, i777-'78; he was Captain, Brigade Major, and 
Lieutenant Colonel of Provincial forces in the French 
and Indian War, and Colonel of the 3d Battalion, York 
Militia, a marching regiment, i776-'77.f 



*A most interesting account of this engagement is given in a letter by Col. Cropper 
printed in the Calendar of Virginia State Papers, III, p. 391. Here, also, 
may be found his entertaining letter of resignation, addressed to the President of 
Congress, and copies of all his commissions. 

fA biographical memoir, with copies of Col. Jameson's commission from the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is deposited in the archives of the Society. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 33 



Wilson Lindsley Gill, LL.B. 

Lawyer. Born in Columbus, Ohio, September i2, 1851. 

Son of John Loriman and Mary Smith Waters Gill: 
grandson of Asa and Kezia Paddock Richmond Waters : 
great-grandson of Asa and Lydia Smith Waters. Cap- 
tain Asa Waters (1760-1845), of Stoughton, Mass., 
enlisted at the age of sixteen in Robinson's Regiment, 
Massachusetts Militia, and in 1779, served in the ist 
Mass. Bay Regiment, Continental Line, in the Hudson 
River Campaign. Col. William Bradford, and Private 
Deborah Sampson (Robert Shurtliff ), were his cousins. 
[See Record of Prof. Thompson, p. 71.] 

[Great-great-great-great-great-grandson of William 
and Allis Rayner Sonthivorth Bradford. William Brad- 
ford (1589- 1 657) to escape British intolerance, came to 
America in the Mayflower in 1620, and was thirty-one 
years elected Governor of the Massachusetts Colony.] 

Col. George Washington Gist. 189 

Born in Frederick Co., Maryland, July 20. 1819. 

Son of Independent and Rachel Gist Gist : grandson of 
Mordecai and Mary Sterritt Gist. Mordecai Gist (1743- 
92) was Captain of the " Baltimore Independent Com- 
pany," the first raised in Maryland; in 1776, as Major of 
Maryland Troops he fought in the battle of Brooklyn and 
later in the New Jersey Campaign. In 1779 he was ap- 
pointed Brigadier-General in the Continental Army, and 
took a prominent part in the Southern Campaigns. 

George Brown Goode. i6o 

Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. Born in New Albany, Floyd 
Co., Indiana, February 13, 1851. 

[Son of Francis Collier and Sarah Woodruff Crane 
Goode : grandson of Philip and Rebekah Hayes Goode : 
great-grandson of Samuel and Mary Collier Goode. 
Samuel Goode (1749-92), of Charlotte Co., Virginia, 
was a private in the Charlotte Militia.] 

Grandson of Israel Cooper and Ha^inah Lyon Crane : 
great-grandson of Israel and Mary Cooper Crane. Israel 



34 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Crane, Jr. (1755-95), of Newark, N. J., was private 
and Cornet in the Essex Troop of Horse, in service under 
Gen. Stirling in New Jersey. Gen. Matthias Ogden, 
Col. Aaron Ogden, Col. David Condit, and Joseph 
Crane, killed at Fort Delancey, were his cousins. 

[Great-grandson of Richard Hayes, of Raleigh Parish, 
Amelia Co., Va., later of Early Co., Ga., patriot, con- 
tributed horses and supplies, and sent into ser- 
vice his three sons, William Hayes, private Va. Conti- 
nental Line, and Richard and Henry Hayes, officers of 
partisans, the latter wounded at The Cowpens.] 

[Great-great-grandson of John Collier, of York Co., 
Va., a soldier under Admiral Vernon in the Carthagena 
Expedition, whose sons were Lieut. Thomas Collier, 
of the Virginia Continental Line, and John Collier, a 
soldier under Braddock, and in the Revolution. His 
nephews were Capt. Charles Hicks, Capt. Isaac and 
John and James Hicks, the two latter captured at Briar 
Creek, Ga., and Joseph, James, William and Wyatt 
Collier, all soldiers, the latter killed at Briar Creek,] 

[Great-great-great-grandson of Rev. John Cross, a 
leader in the New Jersey "Land-right Rebellion " of 
1747 — a movement distinctly foreshadowing the Revo- 
lution,* and descendant in the seventh and eighth gene- 
rations of Jasper Crane, Capt. Samuel Swaine, and 
Henry Lyon, Jonas Wood, Joseph Frazee, and Thomas 
PiERSON, founders of Newark and Elizabeth, and partici- 
pants in a similar anti-rent revolt in 1671.! 

[Greatnephew of Gaines Goode and Burwell 
GooDE, privates, and Henry Jones Goode, Lieutenant 
of Ohio Militia, in service in 1812, and of John Goode, 
ist Lieutenant, 19th U. S. Infantry, 181 2, and an officer 



* A loyalist journal of the day describes him as "the Rev. Mr. John Cross, late 
Minister of Baskingridge, Secretary, Scribe and Counsellor to the worthy Mr. 
Roberts, commander-in-chief to the rioters in their expedition to Perth Am- 
boy, June 17, 1747, for which he and many others stand indicted for high 
treason." 

t "This was a contest for liberties, for solemnly guaranteed rights. Some portions 
of the blood of 1776 was creeping quietly in the ancestral veins of these 
worthy men."— Stearns: Historical Discourse, ist Church, Newark, 1853. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 35 



under "Bolivar, the Liberator," in the struggle for South 
American Independence, i8i5-'3o.] 

[Great-great-great-great-grandson of John and Martha 
Mackern£ss Goode. John Goode (1620-1711), of 
"Whitby," Varina Parish, Va., was a soldier under 
Bacon in 1676, in "the first armed uprising of 
Americans against the oppressions of Royal au- 
thority."] 

Richard Urquhart Goode. is 

Geographer, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Liberty, Va., December 8, 

1858. 

Son of John and Sallie Urquhart Goode: grandson of 
John and Ann M. Leftwich Goode: great-grandson of 
Edmund and Sarah Branch Goode. Edmund Goode, of 
Bedford Co., Va., private in the Virginia Continental 
Line, fought at Camden, Guilford C. H., and Eutaw 
Springs. He was great-grandson of John Goode, of 
"Whitby," a soldier under Bacon in the Rebellion 
of 1676.* Col. Robert Goode, of "Whitby," Chester- 
field Co., and Col. Samuel Goode, of "Whitby," 
Mecklenburg Co., Va., officers of Virginia State Troops, 
and Bennett Goode, Member of the Convention of 
1775, were his cousins. 

Great-grandson of Joel Breckenridge Leftwich (1759- 
1846), of Bedford Co., Va., who, as a non-com- 
missioned officer, fought at Germantown and Camden, 
and was Captain, 1781, and subsequently Brigadier 
General of Virginia Troops in the War of 1812. 



" In some measure his (Bacon's) movement foreshadowed the American Revolu- 
tion, which it preceded by a hundred years. His contrivance of a quasi- 
voluntary engagement of the people, as a substitute for legal authority, resembles 
strangely the 'Articles of Association ' exacted by the Congress of 1774 ; it is 
possible that the patriots of the later rebellion took lessons from him. For in 
1774 the Virginia Gazette printed an account of Bacon's movement from an 
old manuscript, now lost, as a means of animating the people to resistance. The 
signature, ' Nathaniell Bacon, Generall by the consent of the People,' strikes a 
note that has a strangely modern and republican sound." 

Edward Eccleston, " Nathaniel Bacon, the Patriot of 1676," 
in Century Magazine, xl, 435. 



36 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Prof. Joseph Claybaugh Gordon. is 

Professor in the National Deaf Mute College. Born in Piqua, O., March 9, 
1842. 

Son of Rev. John McDaniel and Elizabeth Anii Fisher 
Gordon: grandson of George and Agnes McDaniel 
Gordon : great-grandson of George and Mary McLean 
Gordon. George Gordon (1755-1826), of Cumberland 
Co., Pa., was Corporal in the 6th Battalion, Pennsyl- 
vania Continental Line (Jan. 20, 1776), served in the 
Canada Campaign, and was at Three Rivers, and prob- 
ably at Ticonderoga. 

Great-grandson of John and Lydia Sturgeon Mc- 
Daniel. Col. John McDaniel [McDonnel or McDonaldJ, 
of Cumberland Co., Pa. (1746-1831), was Lieutenant 
[perhaps in the State Militia], and served in the 
Hudson River Campaign. He was subsequently Lieu- 
tenant Colonel of the 6th Brigade, Pennsylvania 
Militia. 

Morton Gordon. (Fair Haven, Ohio.) 159 

Farmer. Born in Fayette Co., Ky., February 20, 1798. 

Son of Corporal George Gordon, of the Cumberland 
Battalion (6th), Pennsylvania Continental Line. 

John Requa Graham. 50 

Clerk, Navy Department. Born in Sing Sing, N. Y., February 28, 1818. 

Son of Henry and Sarah Requa Graham : grandson of 
Dr. Isaac Gilbert and Auley Banker Graham. Isaac 
Gilbert Graham, M. D. (1760-1848), of Westchester 
Co., N. Y., was Surgeon's Mate, 7th Regiment, Mass- 
achusetts Continental Line. 

Grandson of John REauA, of Tarrytown, N. Y., a 
private soldier, who was wounded in service and hon- 
orably discharged. 

Great-grandson of Andrew Graham, M. D. (d. 1785), 
of Woodbury, Conn., patriot, was a Member of the 
Committee of Safety of Connecticut. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL, Z^ 



Gen. Adolphus Washington Greely, U.S.A. 114 

Brigadier General and Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army. Born in Newbury- 
port, Mass., March 27, 1844. 

Son of John Balch and Frances Dunn Cobb Greely : 
grandson of Stephen and Betsey Balch Greely : great- 
grandson of Joseph and Prudence Clements Greely. 
Joseph Greely, patriot and minuteman, of Haverhill, 
Massachusetts, was Sergeant in Captain Ebenezer Colby's 
Company of Colonel Johnson's Regiment, and though 
nearly sixty years of age marched to Lexington on the 
alarm of April 19, 1775, and later contributed supplies 
to the Continental troops. 

[Son of John Balch Greely, who served in the war of 
1812, in a Massachusetts Company at the mouth of the 
Merrimac; and grandson of Samuel Cobb who fought at 
Niagara and in other engagements of the time.} 

Bernard Richardson Green. 24 

Civil Engineer, and Superintendent of the Congressional Library Building. 
Born in Maiden, Mass., December 28, 1843. 

Son of Ezra and Elmina Minerva Richardson Green : 
grandson of Bernard and Lois Diman Green. Bernard 
Green (1752-1834), of Maiden, Mass., was Corporal of 
Minutemen at the Lexington alarm; later Corporal. 
Sergeant, and Lieutenant of Middlesex Militia, ijjG-'yS, 
in service at Point Shirley, White Plains, Trenton and 
Princeton. 

Francis E. Grice. i6i 

Naval Architect. Born in Portsmouth, Va., March 30, 1829. 

Son of Francis and Mary P. H. Elliott Grice : grand- 
son of Joseph and Mary Smith Grice. Joseph Grice 
(1759- )' of Philadelphia, was private in a Light 
Infantry Company, 1776, in service at Perthe Amboy; 
private in Captain Moulden's Artillery Company, 1777, in 
service at Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, and Valley 
Forge: getting tired of "soldiering on shore," he 



38 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

shipped on the Privateer "Mars" on a voyage to St. 
Eustatia, and later on the "Renown," of Norfolk.* 
Great-grandson of Francis and Mary Brocketibrough 
Grice. Major Francis Grice (b. 1726), of Philadelphia, 
Qiiartermaster under General Mifflin, was captured in 
1777, and confined in British prisons in Philadelphia and 
New York until 1786. 

Hon. Charles Henry Grosvenor, M. C. 123 

(Athens, Ohio.) 

Representative in Congress. Born in Pomfret, Conn., September 20, 1833. 

Son of Peter Grosvenor, and grandson of Thomas 
Grosvenor, of Pomfret, Conn., who, as Lieutenant in 
a Connecticut Regiment, fought and was wounded at 
Bunker Hill, who served through the war, and was 
present at the surrender of Cornwallis, as Lieutenant 
Colonel, 2d Regiment, Conn. Continental Line. 

Gen. Peter Valentine Hagner, U. S. A. 49 

Colonel of Ordnance and Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. A., retired. Born 
in Washington, August 28, 1815. 

Son of Peter and Frattces Randall Hagner: grandson 
of John and Deborah Knapp Randall. John Randall 
(born in Westmoreland Co., Va., 1750), patriot and 
soldier, a resident of Annapolis, was Commissary of 
Stores in the Maryland Line, in service in New York, 
1778, and Sub-Clothier in service in the Southern De- 
partment in 1779: he was also Member of the Annapolis 
Council of Safety. 

John Jacob Halsted. 20 

Attorney at Law. Born in Newark, N. J., November 29, 1821. 

Son of John and Mary Pennington Halsted: grandson 
of William Sandford and Phebe Wheeler Pennington. 
Gov. William Sandford Pennington (1757-1826), Lieu- 



*A most interesting MS. narrative of Mr. Grice's adventures is in the possession of 
his grandson, who promises a copy to the Society. It was partly printed 
under the title " The Good Ship Renown and the Rest of the Fleet," in Max- 
well's Virginia Historical Register, vi, 1853, pp. 162-86. 




JOSEPH GRICE 
[from an old paintingi 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 39 

tenant, Captain and Major, 2d New Jersey Artillery, in 
service lyjS-'Si, and wounded, possibly at the siege of 
Yorktown, at which he was present; subsequently 
Chancellor of New Jersey and Governor of the State, 
i8i3-'i5, and U. S. District Judge for the District of 
New Jersey. 

Great-grandson of James Wheeler (i74o-'77), Ensign 
and Captain, 2d Battalion Somerset Militia, New Jersey 
— " a soldier of the Revolution, good and true." 

[Greatnephew of Matthias Halsted, Quartermaster 
and Lieutenant Colonel, ist Battalion, ist Establish- 
ment, New Jersey Continental Line, and Aide to Gen. 
Dickenson, and of Dr. Robert Halsted, of Elizabeth, 
N. J., Surgeon in the Continental service.] 

Alexander Richmond Hart. 75 

(New York City.) 

President of the New York Engraving and Printing Company. Born in Clay- 
ton, N. Y., April 18, 1854. 

Son of Alfred B. 2iX\di Elizabeth A7in Edmeston Hart: 
grandson of Benjamin and Maria Batcheller Hart : great- 
grandson of John Hart (i7o8-'8o), of Hopewell 
Township, New Jersey, patriot, member of the Colo- 
nial Congress, 1 774-' 75; Signer of the Declaration of 
Independence, and chairman of the New Jersey Council 
of Safety, 1 777-' 78. 

Frederick Loviad Harvey. 65 

Examiner, U. S. General Land Office. Born in Washington, May 6, 1856. 

Son of Frederick L. and Helen M. Ford Harvey: 
grandson of Asa and Mary A. Nickles Ford: great- 
grandson of Augustus and Damris Rice Ford : gi^eat- 
great-grandson of Abijah and Anna Donniso7i Ford. 
Augustus Ford (1772-1855), at the age of nine a pow- 
der-boy on a Rhode Island Privateer, commanded by 
his uncle, Capt. Donnison, which was sent to the West 
Indies to bring supplies furnished by the French for the 
Continental Army; subsequently seaman on the brig 



40 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

"Washington," when the new American Flag was for 
the first time carried around the southern capes, and 
later Master, U. S. Navy, serving in the War of 1812. 

Great-great-grandson of Abijah Ford (1744-1809), of 
Providence, R. I,, an officer under Gen. Nathaniel 
Greene, his brother-in-law. 

Great-great-grandson of Asa Rice, of Connecticut, 
private in Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers, Continental 
Army, who "enlisted for the war," March 7, 1778. 

Thomas Edwards Hatch, M. D. 66 

Physician. Born in Keene, Vt., August li, 1822. 

Son of John and Sarah Edwards Hatch : grandson of 
Thomas and Matilda Cha^idler Edwards. Thomas Ed- 
wards (1757-1837), of Springfield, Vt, private in Lieu- 
tenant Colonel John Barrett's Company of Vermont 
Militia at the siege of Quebec, and in 1776 in Captain 
Powers' Company of a New York Regiment, com- 
manded by Colonel Van Dyke. 

Hon. John Steele Henderson, M. C. 152 

(Salisbury, N. C.) 

Representative in Congress. Born in Rowan Co., N. C, January 6, 1846. 

Honorary Member. 

Son of Archibald and Mary Steele Ferrand Henderson : 
grandson of Archibald and Sarah Alexander Henderson : 
great-grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Keeling Hen- 
derson. Judge Richard Henderson (i734-'85), of Gran- 
ville Co., N. C, was president of the Colony of Tran- 
sylvania, organized in 1775, with a representative 
government and entire religious liberty; his brother, 
Maj. Pleasant Henderson (1736-1842), of Hanover Co., 
Va. , was in service, i775-'8i, and was Major in Mal- 
medy's Mounted Corps, North Carolina State Troops: 
his wife's uncle, Col. James Williams (i74o-'8o), com- 
manded at the victory of Musgrove's Mill, and fell 
at the head of a column at King's Mountain. 

Great-grandson of William Alexander, whose brother. 




PATRICK HENRY 



[from a painting bv sully after a miniature 

BY A FRENCH ARTIST] 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 41 

Gov. Nathaniel Alexander (i 756-1 808), was a private, 
North Carolina State Troops. 

Grandson of Dr. Lee and Margaret Steele Ferrand : 
great-grandson of John and Mary Nesfield Steele. Gen. 
John Steele (1764-1812), of Salisbury, N. C., was 
Member of the Constitutional Convention, 1788, and of 
the First and Second Congress. 

Great-great-grandson of William and Elizabeth Max- 
well StetXt. Mrs. Elizabeth Steele, in February, 1781, 
gave opportune aid to General Greene by presenting 
to him two bags of silver, her savings of several years. 
"Never," writes Greene's biographer, "did relief come 
at a more needed moment." 

Hon. William Wirt Henry. 40 

(Richmond, Virginia.) 

Born at " Red Hill," Charlotte Co., Va., February 14, 1831. 

Honorary Member. President of the Virginia Society. 

Son of John and Elvira McClelland W^my '. grandson 
of Patrick and Dorethea Dandridge Henry. Patrick 
Henry (i736-'99), patriot and soldier, who rendered 
service to the cause of American Independence as 
follows: — (i) He introduced and carried in the Virginia 
House of Burgesses, in 1765, the Stamp Act resolutions 
which gave the first impulse to the American Revolu- 
tion; (2) He thereafter led the Colony of Virginia in 
her Revolutionary measures; (3) He was a leading 
member of the Continental Congresses of 1774-75; 
(4) He was Colonel of the first Virginia regiment raised 
to defend the Colony in 1775, and Commissary of all 
the forces of the Colony until 1776; (5) He was first 
Governor of the State of Virginia, 1776-79; (6) He 
was member of the Constitutional Convention of 1788. 
John Syme, patriot, member of the Convention of 1775, 
was his half-brother, and Col. Samuel Meredith, Gen. 
William Christian, Gen. William Campbell and Gen. 
William Russell were his brothers-in-law. 

Grandson of Thomas Stanhope and Margaret Cabell 
McClelland: grandson of Col. William and Amie Car- 



42 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

ri7igto7i Cabell. Col. William Cabell, Jr., was Major 
of Virginia Militia, 1781. 

Great-grandson of William and Margaret Jordan 
Cabell. Col. William Cabell, Sr. (i73o-'98), of 
"Union Hill," patriot, was member of the Virginia 
Convention of 1775, and of the Committee of Safety. 

Col. Edward Miles Heyl, U.S.A. 281 

Inspector-General, U. S. Army. Born in Philadelphia, February 14, 1844. 

Son of David Seeger and Caroline Julia Heath Hevl: 
grandson of Charles Petit and Esther Keeley Heath : 
great-grandson of David and Mary Worthington Heath. 
David Heath (d. 1820) was private, Hunterdon County. 
New Jersey, Militia. 

[Grandson of Philip and Margaret Whann Heyl: 
great-grandson of John and Mary Strieker Heyl. John 
Heyl, patriot, in some capacity, not yet ascertained, 
was with Washington at Valley Forge. His brother 
was Ensign, ist Battalion, Philadelphia Associators.] 

ROMYN Hitchcock. (Pekln, China.) 39 

Chinese Agent, World's Columbian Exposition. Born in St. Louis, Mo., 
December i, 1851. 

Son of Alonzo and Hannah Hallenbeck Hitchcock: 
grandson of David and Miriam Merriek Hitchcock: 
great-grandson of David and Tryphena Ketehnm Hitch- 
cock. David Hitchcock (1742- ), of Bromfield, 
Mass., was Corporal in the Bromfield Militia, in service 
at Saratoga. 

Walter James Hoffman, M.D. 105 

Ethnologist, U. S. Bureau of Ethnology. Born at Weidasville, Lehigh Co., 
Pa., May 30, 1846. 

Son of William F. and Elizabeth Weida Hoffman: 
grandson of Michael i^nd. Katherine Gritnemeyer Hoffman : 

great-grandson of Paul and Elizabeth Hoffman. 

Paul Hoffman (1738-1791), of Northampton Co., Pa., a 
native of Rhenish-Prussia; private in the Northampton 
Militia, 1777, and later Quartermaster's Sergeant; his 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 43 

brother, Martin Hoffman, of Northampton Co., courier, 
killed on duty in Western Pennsylvania by Indians and 
Tories, and his sons, Ludwig Hoffman served for four 
years in Captain Craig's Company, St. Clair's Pennsyl- 
vania Battalion, and Paul Hoffman, of Northampton 
Co., was killed by Tories in the Broad Mountains of 
Pennsylvania. 

Arnold Harris Hord. 85 

Born in Midway, Ky., October 13, 1867. 

Son of Medical Director William Taliaferro and 
Eleanor Vaulx Harris Hord: grandson of Francis 
Triplett and Elizabeth Scott Moss Hord : great-grandson 
of Elias and Ann Triplett Hord: great-great-grandson 
of Jesse and Antoinette Hord Hord. Jesse Hord (1749- 
18 14), of Caroline Co., Va., officer of Militia in active 
service. 

Grandson of Major Arnold and Susan Wells Arm- 
strong Hord: great-grandson of Gen. Robert and 
Margaret Dysart Nichol Armstrong: great-great- 
grandson of James and Susan Wells Armstrong. 
James Armstrong — "Trooper Armstrong" — (born in 
Ireland, 1745), was a resident of Abingdon, Va., a 
famous partisan soldier of the Virginia and the Carolina 
Campaigns. 

Walter Hough. 167 

Etlinologist in the U. S. National Museum. Born in Morgantown, Va., 
April 23, 1859. 

Son of Lycurgus Stephen and Ann Fairchild Hough : 
grandson of Rev. Ashbel and Eliza MacDougal Fair- 
child: great-grandson of Lent Winchell and Jemima 
Ball Fairchild: great-great-grandson of Abner Fairchild. 
Abner Fairchild, of Morris Co., N. J., was Captain in 
the Eastern Battalion, Morris Co. Militia: six sons 
were with him in military service, one of whom died in 
the field and one of whom is believed to have been 
Lent Winchell Fairchild. 



44 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

James Ross Howard. 130 

Civil Engineer. Born in Dinwiddie Co., Va., September 22, 1822. 

Son of James Hunter Ross and Grace Lewis Howard: 
grandson of Hunter Blair and Mary Amelia Ross 
Howard: great-grandson of Hunter Blair and Margaret 
Campbell Wov^&vd. Hunter Blair Howard (1695-1777), 
a native of Kent, England, at the age of eighty served 
with Woodford's Battalion of Culpeper Riflemen. Hun- 
ter Blair Howard, Jr. (1756-1806), was Member of the 
Prince George Committee of Safety, and a private in 
Captain Cunningham's Company, Maryland State 
Troops. 

[Great-grandnephew of George Ross (i73o-'79), of 
Lancaster, Pa., Member of the Continental Congress, 
and Signer of the Declaration of Independence.] 

William Wheeler Hubbell. 84 

Lawyer and Inventor. Born in Pliiladelphia, Pa., March 4, 1821. 

Son of Truman Mallory and Mary Ann Flower Hub- 
bell: grandson of Silas and Hannah Freyich Hubbell. 
Captain Silas Hubbell (1738-1805), patriot and soldier, 
was a participant in the "Boston Tea Party," and 
present at Lexington and Bunker Hill, and in the Long 
Island Campaign. 

Henry Morris Husband. 78 

Born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 22, 1842. 

John L. Husband. 133 

Born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 19, 1843. 

Son of Joshua L. 2iX\dt. Mary Morris Husband: grand- 
son of Henry and Eliza J. Smith Morris: great-grand- 
son of Robert and Mary White Morris. Robert Morris 
(1734-1806), of Pennsylvania, patriot and statesman, 
was Signer of the Non-Importation Agreement of 1765; 
Delegate to the Continental Congress, 1 775-' 78; Signer 
of the Declaration of Independence; Superintendent of 
Finance, i78i-'84; Member of the Constitutional Con- 
ventions — "the financier of the Revolution." 




[fkom a paintin(; iiv r. k. pine] 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 45 

Great-grandson of William Pitt Smith, M. D., of. 
New York. Surgeon in the Continental Service. 

[Grandnephew of Rev. William White, D. D. 
(1748-1836), Bishop of Pennsylvania. "All the clergy 
of Philadelphia sided with the Colonies; none more 
zealously than Dr. White."] 

Jefferson Harry Jennings. 

(See page 48.) 

Arnold Burges Johnson. 97 

Chief Clerk, Light-House Board. Born in Rochester, Mass., June 17, 1S34. 

Rev. James Gibson Johnson, D. D. 98 

(New London, Connecticut.) 

Clergyman. Born in Providence, R. I., June 25, 1S39. 

Capt. John Burges Johnson, U. S. A. 99 

(Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas.) 

Captain, U. S. Army. Born in Rochester, iVlass., November 29, 1847. 

Joseph Taber Johnson, M. D., Ph. D. 196 

Professor of Physiology, Georgetown University. Born in Lowell, Mass., 
June 30, 1845. 

Lorenzo M. Johnson 100 

(Cindad Porfirio-Diaz, Mexico, 

General Manager, International Mexican Railroad. Born in Rochester, Mass. 

Sons of Rev. Lorenzo Dow and Afary Burges Johnson : 
grandsons of Jeremiah and Thoniazin B/a?ic/iard Johnson. 
Jeremiah Johnson (b. 1764), of Weathersfield, Vt., was 
private in the ist New Hampshire Regiment, two years 
in service, and later a soldier in the War of 1812. 

Grandsons of Abraham and Rhoda Caswell Taber Bur- 
ges: great-grandsons of John and Abigail Chase Burges. 
John Burges (1736-1791), of Rochester, Mass., soldier 
and patriot, aided the cause of Independence as Minute- 
man, Lieutenant of Militia, and Collector of Stores. 

Gen. Bradley Tyler Johnson. 170 

(Baltimore, Maryland. 

Attorney at Law. Born in Frederick City, Md., September 29, 1829. 
Honorary Member. President of the Maryland Society, S. A. R. 

Son of Charles Worthington and Eleanor Murdock 



46 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Zy/t-r Johnson: grandson of Baker and Catherine Worth- 
ington Johnson. Baker Johnson (1747-1811) was Colo- 
nel, 4th Battalion, Frederick County Militia, 1776, and a 
Delegate to the Maryland Convention of i775-'76. Six 
of his brothers were Revolutionary soldiers or patriots, 
viz: — Maj. Benjamin Johnson (b. 1727): Thomas John- 
son (1732-1819), Member of the Maryland Conventions 
of 1 775-' 76; Senior Brigadier General, Maryland Militia, 
Governor of Maryland, 1 777-' 79 ; Member of the Mary- 
land House of Delegates, and Delegate to the Con- 
tinental Congress: James Johnson (b. 1736), Colonel 
of the 2d Battalion of Frederick Militia, 1776: John 
Johnson (b. 1745), Army Surgeon: Roger. Johnson 
(b. 1749), Second Major of the 2d Battalion of Fred- 
erick Militia: Joshua Johnson (b. 1744), Agent for 
Maryland, at Nantes, France, during the Revolution. 
His daughter, Louisa Catherine, became the wife of John 
Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. 

Grandson of William Bradley and Miwdock 

Tyler: great-grandson of Robert Tyler. Jr. : great-great- 
grandson of Robert Tyler, Sr., Lieutenant Colonel of 
the Upper Battalion of Prince George County Militia, 
commanded by Col. Joshua Beale, 1776. 

Great-grandson of Nicholas and Catherine Griffith 
Worthington, his wife. Nicholas Worthington (1734- 
'93), of Anne Arundel Co., Md., was First Major of the 
Severn Battalion of Anne Arundel Militia, 1776, and 
Member of the Maryland House of Delegates. 

Great-grandson of George Murdock, of Prince 
George County, Md., a Delegate to the Convention of 
1774- 

James Bowen Johnson. ios 

Secretary and Treasurer of Howard University. Born in Royal Oak, Mich., 
October 14, 1830. 

Son of James Gibson and Susan Bowen Johnson: 
grandson of Jeremiah and Thomazin Blancha) d ]o\\x\?>ov\. 
Jeremiah Johnson (1764-1847) was private in Captain 
Moody Dustin's Company, ist New Hampshire Regi- 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 47 

ment, enlisting at Keene, March, 1781, for two years, 
subsequently a soldier in the War of 1812. 

Grandson of Daniel and Mehitable Packard Bowen. 
Daniel Bowen (1750-1829), of Woodstock, Conn., was 
a private, 2d Regiment Conn. Continental Line, lyyy-'So, 
in service in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Campaign, 
and at Valley Forge : his brother, Henry Bowen, was a 
private in the 3d Regiment, Conn. Continental Line, 1775. 

Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston. 

Born at " Longwood," Prince Edward Co.,Va., February 3, 1807. 

Honorary Member. Vice President General of the National Society, 
Sons of thie American Revolution. 

Son of Peter and Mary Wood Johnston. Judge Peter 
Johnston (1763-1841), of Prince Edward Co., Va., ran 
away from Hampden-Sidney College when sixteen years 
old, and joined Lee's Legion, and at the close of the war 
was Staff Officer of the Continental "Light Corps," 
with the rank of Captain. He led the forlorn hope at 
the storming of Fort Watson, and was publicly thanked 
in the presence of the army. He was Member of the 
Virginia Society of the Cincinnati. His son bears the 
name of his gallant companion in arms, Major Joseph 
Eggleston (1754-1811), of Amelia Co., Va., who com- 
manded the cavalry of Lee's Legion. 

Grandson of Valentine Wood, of Goochland, Co., 
Va., and Lucy, his wife, sister of Patrick Henry, patriot 
and soldier.* 

Orange JUDD. (Chicago, Illinois.) 27 

Editor. Born in Niagara Co., N. Y., July 26, 1822. 

Son of Ozias and Rheuama Wright Judd: grandson 
of Orange and Abigail Dike Judd. Orange Judd 
(i 763-1844), of Tyringham, Mass., was a private in the 
Berkshire Militia, in the Northern Campaigns, and was 
disabled by marches over frozen ground, so that for sixty 
years thereafter he walked with canes, bent almost double. 

• For collaterals, see record of William Wirt Henry. 



48 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



His brothers were in service, Dr. Ozias Juod as private 
and Sergeant, at Bennington and on the alarm of Nov. 
3, 1780; and Arunah Judd, private in the Massachusetts 
Line, 1 778-' 79 (Col. Brewer's Regiment), and were 
both pensioners. 

[Ozias Judd, father of Orange Judd, fought at Black 
Rock, in 1813, and his brother. Orange Judd, and three 
cousins named Storms, who fought by his side, were 
killed, scalped and burned by the Indian allies of the 
British troops.] 

Jefferson Harry Jennings. hi 

Clerk, U. S. Pension Office. Born in Oquauka, 111., January 30, 1843. 

Son of Harry and Sarah Anii Carman Jennings: 
grandson of Joseph and Mary K. Miller Carman: great- 
grandson of Samuel and Deborah Bicrrows Carman. 
Samuel Carman (1757-1836), of Middletown, N. J., was 
a private in the Monmouth Militia, ist Regiment, and 
Foreman's Detached Militia, and in the 4th Battalion, 
2d Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line. He 
served as a scout, and was three times a prisoner, 
once in the "Jersey" prison-ship, and each time 
escaped. 

Lieut. Lyman W. V. Kennon, U. S. A. 82 

First Lieutenant, U. S. A. Born in Providence, R. L, September 2, 1858. 

Son of Charles H. N. and Adelaide Hall Kennon: 
grandson of Asaph and Hannah C. Palmer Hall: great- 
grandson of Asaph and Esther McNair Hall. Asaph 
Hall (b. 1735), of Goshen, Conn., patriot and soldier, 
was First Lieutenant of the 4th Regiment Conn. Conti- 
nental Line at Ticondferoga, 1775; Captain in Sheldon's 
Regiment in service against Tryon's invasion, 1779, 
and in the 2d State Battalion, in service under Wooster, 
1777; Member of the General Court of Connecticut, 
i773-'97 5 Member of the Constitutional Convention, 
1788. 




GENERAL EPHRAIM DOUGLASS 
[from an old painting] 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 49 

Ephraim Douglass King. 67 

Journalist. Born in Uniontown, Pa., April 27, 1837. 

Son of Allen and Eliza Douglass King : grandson of 
Ephraim and Mary Lyon Douglass. Ephraim Douglass 
(1750- 1 833), of Fayette Co., Pa., was Quartermaster, 
8th Regiment, Pennsylvania Continental Line, 1776; 
Quartermaster, Staff of Maj. Gen. Lord Stirling, taken 
prisoner at Bushwick, Aug. 27, 1776; Aide to Gen. 
Lincoln, 1777 ; taken prisoner March 13, and confined 
on British prison-ships at Long Island, i777-'8o; In- 
tendant of Prisoners, Philadelphia, i782-'83; impris- 
oned, 1783, while on special mission into Canada; and 
Brigadier General of Militia, Fayette Co., Pa., 1793. 

Harry King. 21 

Cartographer, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Washington, D. C, Octo- 
ber 8, 1848. 

Son of Z. M. P. and Henrietta Lajidon King: grand- 
son of Daniel and Catalina Van Ness Landon: great- 
grandson of Abram Van Ness, of Columbia Co., N. Y., 
private soldier, killed by Tories near Nassau, N. Y., in 
1777. 

Prof. Frank Hall Knowlton, M. S. 104 

Professor of Botany, Columbian University. Born in Brandon, Vt., Sep- 
tember 2, i860. 

Son of Julius A. and Mary Ellen Blackmer Knowlton: 
grandson of John and Betsy Wright Knowlton: great- 
grandson of Gardner and Jemima Sibley Wright : great- 
great-grandson of Simeon and Sophia Child Wright. 
Simeon Wright (b. 1754), of Springfield, Mass., was Lieu- 
tenant in the Massachusetts Militia: " he was among the 
first to take up arms in the Revolution, and the Sunday 
following the Lexington fight, he rallied the ' Liberty 
boys ' and marched the next morning for Cambridge; he 
was at the Bunker Hill fight and several others at the 
South, and continued in the army through the war." 

Great-grandson of Abraham Knowlton, private in the 
Massachusetts Militia. 



50 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Rev. Samuel Kramer. ne 

Chaplain of the Washington Navy Yard. Born in Baltimore, Md., October 
14, 1S08. 

Son of John and Clarissa Paul Bassctt Kramer. John 
Kramer (1758-1814), a private in Washington's Body 
Guard, lyys-'Si, and his brother, George Kramer, was 
a member of the same company. 

Samuel Pierpont Langley, LL. D. 4 

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Director of the Allegheny 
Observatory. Born in Roxbury, Mass., August 22, 1834. 

Son of Samuel and Mary Sumner Williams Langley : 
grandson of Samuel and Emily Montague Pierpont 
Langley : great-grandson of Samuel and Esther Mayo 
Langley. Capt. Samuel Langley (1743- 1800), of War- 
wick, Mass., who commanded a company of veterans 
in the campaign to suppress Shay's Rebellion in 1787, 
was previously engaged in the Revolution. 

Grandson of John and Na^icy Dowse Williams: great- 
grandson of John and Mary Sumrier Williams: great- 
great-grandson of Joseph and Martha Howell Williams. 
Col. Joseph Williams (i7o8-'98), of Roxbury, an officer 
in the old French and Indian Wars, member of the 
"Sons of Liberty," and one of the "officers of the 
main guard" in camp at Cambridge, May i, 1775. 

Great-grandson of Samuel and Ayin Kettell Dowse. 
Samuel Dowse, of Charlestown, Mass., private in the 
Medford Militia, and in Mcintosh's Regiment ; was en- 
gaged at Dorchester Heights, 1776. 

William Lee, M. D. s 

Physician, and Professor of Physiology, Columbian University. Born in 
Boston, Mass., March 12, 1841. 

Son of William Barlow and Ami Whitman Lee: 
grandson of William and Susannah Palfrey Lee: great- 
grandson of William and Susan Cazneau Palfrey. Wil- 
liam Palfrey (1741-1780), of Boston, patriot and soldier, 
was Aide to Gen. Charles Lee, July 3, 1775 ; Aide to 
General Washington, March 6, 1776 ; Paymaster Gen- 
eral and Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army, 
July 9, 1776; Consul General to France, Nov. 4, 1780. 




GEN. HENRY LEE 

[after a MEZZOTIiNT BY NEILL] 



MEMBERSHIP ROLU 5 1 

Hon. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, M. C. 117 

Representative in Congress from Virginia. Born at "Arlington," Alexandria 
Co., Va., May 31, 1837. 
Honorary Member. Vice President of the Virginia Society, S. A. R. 

Son of Gen. Robert Edward and Mary Randolph 
Custis Lee: grandson of Gen. Henry and Ann Hill Car- 
ter Lee. Gen, Henry Lee — "Light Horse Harry" — 
(1756-1818), of Westmoreland Co., Vii., was com- 
mander of "Lee's Legion," and author of "Memoirs 
of the War in the Southern Department;" Member of 
the Virginia Constitutional Convention, and of the Con- 
tinental Congress, and Commander of the Army 
against the Whisky Insurrection in 1795. 

Great-grandson of Henry .and Lucy Grymes Lee. 
Henry Lee (died 1787), patriot, of " Leesylvania," Staf- 
ford Co., was a Member of the House of Burgesses, and 
Signer of the Westmoreland Association. 

Great-great-grandson of Col. Henry Lee, of "Lee's 
Hall," and his wife, Mary Bland, whose brother was 
Col. RiCHARD Bland — "The Cato of the Revolution "— 
whose own cousin, Giles Bland, was hanged by a 
Royal Governor for taking part in the Rebellion of 1676, 
and whose nephews. Col. Theodrick Bland, and Col. 
John Banister, commanded regiments of the Virginia 
Line, and were Members of the Continental Congress. 

Grandson of G. W. P. and Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis. 
George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857), was the 
adopted son of Washington. 

Great-grandson of John Parke and Eleanor Calvert 
Custis. Col. John Parke Custis (i753-'8i), of " White 
House," New Kent Co., Va., was Aide to Washing- 
ton at Princeton and Yorktown, and Member of the 
House of Burgesses, i78o-'8i. 

Great-great-grandson of Daniel Parke Custis and his 
wife, Martha Dandridge, afterwards Martha Wash- 
ington (1732-1802). " During the winter at Valley Forge 
she suffered every privation in common with the offi- 
cers, and was busy from morning to night, providing 
comforts for the sick soldiers." 



52 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Great-grandson of Charles and Ann Butler Moore 
Carter. Charles Carter (1751-1806), of " Coroto- 
man," patriot, was a Signer of the Williamsburg Associ- 
ation of 1770, and was Member of the First Council of 
State of Virginia under the Constitution of 1788. 

Great-grandson of William and Ann Randolph Fitz- 
hugh. Col. William Fitzhugh, of "Chatham," was 
Member of the Stafford Committee of Safety, i774-'76. 

Charles B. Lockwood. 127 

Journalist. Bom in Cincinnati, C, May i6, 1864. 

Son of Horace Hill and Ann Clarissa Boynton Lock- 
wood : grandson of Charles Brandon and Maria Van 
Buskirk Boynton : great-great-grandson of Caleb 
Boynton, Jr. : and great-great-great-grandson of 
Caleb Boynton, Sr. (See Records of Gen. H. V. 
Boynton, p. 9.) 

John Parker Lothrop. 77 

Principal Examiner, U. S. Pension Bureau. Bom in Barnstable, Mass., April 
12, 1843. 

Son of John and Hannah C. Bassett Lothrop: grand- 
son of Joseph and Zeviah Bearse Bassett. Joseph Bas- 
sett (1763-1855), of Barnstable, Mass., was private iri 
Capt. Russel's Company, Bradford's Regiment, Massa- 
chusetts State Line, i776-'8o. 

Great-grandson of Daniel Bassett (1736- ), 
of Massachusetts, Lieutenant in CaL Gamaliel Brad- 
ford's Regiment, State Line. 

Col. Marshall McDonald. n 

U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries. Bom in Ronjney, Va., October i8, 1836. 

Son of Lieut. Angus William and Leacy Ann Naylor 
McDonald: grandson of Capt. Angus and Mary 
McGiiire 'W\c\)ox\?\&: great-grandson of Col. Angus and 
A7ina Thompson McDonald. Col. Angus McDonald, 
of Frederick Co., Va., soldier and patriot, a native of 
Scotland, banished after "Culloden," and Colonel in 
the old French and Indian War, commanded the Virginia 




COLONEL ANGUS McDONALD 

IN VIRGINIA COLONIAL UNIFORM 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 53 

troops in the Wappatomica Campaign, in June, 1774 — 
the initial movement in Dunmore's war* — who was 
Member of the Frederick County Committee to protest 
against the Boston Port Bill, and who, in organizing the 
Virginia forces, was appointed, by Washington, Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel, a position which his death prevented him 
from accepting. 

Grandson of William and Ann Sanford Naylor: 
great-grandson of William Sanford, of Hampshire 
County, Va., Second Lieutenant, 2d Battalion, Virginia 
Provincials, 1775, Captain Company F, 2d Regiment, 
Virginia Continental Line (Col. Spotswood). 

Great-grandson of William McGuire, of Frederick 
County, Va., Ensign, 3d Regiment, Virginia Continental 
Line, 1781, subsequently Lieutenant. 

[Grandson of Capt. Angus McDonald, 12th Infontry, 
U. S. A., who died in service in the War of 18 12, at 
Batavia, N. Y., where a monument to his memory was 
erected by his brother-officers.] 

Louis Mackall, M. D. m 

Physician. Born in Prince George County, Md., April lo, 1831. 

Son of Dr. Louis and Sarah Somervill Mackall Mackall : 
grandson of Benjamin and Christiana Beall Mackall: 
great-grandson of Benjamin and Rebecca Covi7igton 
Mackall. Col. Benjamin Mackall, 4th, was County Lieu- 
tenant and Colonel of the Calvert County, Md. Militia, 
1776, and Member of the Conventions of 1774 and 1776. 

Grandson of John G. and Susayi Somervill }AacV.a\[\ 
great-grandson of John Mackall, Member of the Mary- 
land Convention of 1776. 

Great-grandson of Capt. James and Ann Trjtemari 
Somervill. James Somervill, of Calvert County, Md., 
was Captain Maryland Continental Line, in service 
i776-'83 and lost an arm at Camden, a Member of the 
Maryland Society of the Cincinnati. 

Great-great-grandson of Alexander and Rebecca Litch- 



* Dunmore's war was so closely connected with the events which led up to the 
Revolution that certain historians have maintained that at the battle of Point 
Pleasant "the first blood of the Revolution' was shed. 



54 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

worth Trueman. Capt. Alexander Trueman served 
seven years in the Maryland Line, and was an original 
Member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati. 

Hon. Charles Harley Mansur. M. C. 63 

(Chilicothe, Missouri.) 

Representative in Congress. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 6, 1835. 

Son of Charles and Rebecca Ann Wells Mansur: 
grandson of Stephen and Hannah Felt Mansur: great- 
grandson of William and Isabella Harvey Mansur. 
William Mansur (1743-1814), of Temple, N. H., one of 
the company of Minutemen who marched from Temple 
to Cambridge on the alarm of April 19, 1775, and pri- 
vate in the New Hampshire Continental Line, Col. 
Reed's Regiment, 1776, and Col. Thomas Heald's Reg- 
iment, 1777, in service at Bennington and Ticonderoga. 

Great-grandson of Peter Felt, of Temple, N. H., 
private in Col. Reed's Regiment, New Hampshire Con- 
tinental Line, 1776; Sergeant in Capt. Drury's Company 
of Militia, which marched, Sept. 29, 1777, and joined the 
Northern Continental Army at Saratoga. 

Prof. Otis Tufton Mason, Ph.D. i68 

Curator in the National Museum. Born in Eastport, Me., April lo, 1S38. 

Son of John and Rachel Li7icobi Mason: grandson of 
Tufton and Sarah Gilman Mason : great-grandson of 
Col. Jeremiah Oilman, of Plaistow, N. H., Captain, 
Major, and Lieutenant Colonel, in the ist Regiment, 
New Hampshire Continental Line, who was disabled at 
Monmouth, where his company behaved with conspicu- 
ous gallantry. 

William Lyman Mason. so 

Born in Cincinnati, C. January 21, 1S47. 

Son of T. B. and Abigail Hall Mason : grandson of 
Samuel and Sarah Cheney Hall. Samuel Hall (b. 1757), 
of Newton, Mass., was private, Massachusetts Militia, 
in Capt. Wiswell's Company, 1776, in Hatch's Regi- 
ment, in Fuller's Company, on duty to guard the captured 
troops of Burgoyne. 

[Grandnephew of Silas Mason, private in the Medfield, 
Massachusetts Militia.] 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 55 

[Great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Thomas 
Mason (i625-'76), of Roxbury, Mass., who, with three 
of his sons, was killed by Indians at the defense of 
Medfield, in King Philips' war.] 

Gen. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, U. S. A. 3 

Quartermaster General, U. S. Army, retired. Born in Augusta, Ga., May 3, 
1816. 

[Son of Dr. Charles Delucena and Mary Montgomery 
Meigs : grandson of Josiah and Clara Be?ijamin Meigs. 
JosiAH Meigs (1757-1822), was private in the Yale Militia 
Company, which, in 1775, escorted Washington from 
New Haven to the Neck Bridge; his brother, Col. 
Return Jonathan Meigs, commanded the 6th Regiment, 
Connecticut Continental Line — " The Leather-Cap Regi- 
ment,"] 

Great-grandson of Col. John Benjamin (d. 1796), of 
Stratford, Conn., Sergeant, ijjj-'yS, Lieutenant, 1778- 
'80, in Colonel Lamb's Continental Artillery, who was 
in service at Stony Point, and at Ridgefield received a 
wound which ultimately caused his death; Captain, 4th 
Connecticut Militia, i78o-'82, Major, 1783, and subse- 
quently Colonel in the same service. 

Alexander Porter Morse. 107 

Lawyer and author. Born in St. Martinsville, Parish St. Martin, La., Octo- 
ber 19, 1842. 

[Son of Isaac Edward and Margaretta Smith Weder- 
strandt Morse: grandson of Nathan 2iX\d Martha Nicholls 
Morse. Nathan Morse, of Elizabeth, N. J., later of 
Louisiana, was Lieutenant Colonel of Cavalry in the 
War of 1812, and Aide to Gen. Jackson at the battle of 
New Orleans.] 

Great-grandson of Isaac and Amy Conklin* Morse. 
Isaac Morse, M. D., of Elizabeth, was engaged in 
irregular service against the English, and acted as 



•Great-granddaughter of Mary Gardiner (daughter of Lion Gardiner), the first 
white child born in Connecticut, at Saybrook, 1638. 



56 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Surgeon in Washington's campaign to quell the 
Whisky Insurrection in 1791. His wife was daughter 
of Elias Conklin, of East Hampton, N. Y., patriot, and 
niece of Elias Dayton (1737-1807), of Elizabeth, N. J., 
Colonel, 3d Regiment, N. J. Continental Line, and 
Brigadier General of New Jersey Troops, and first Pres- 
ident of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati, 
and own cousin of Hon. Jonathan Dayton (1760-1824), 
Captain-Lieutenant, and Paymaster, 3d Regiment, New 
Jersey Continental Line, Speaker of the New Jersey 
House of Representatives, 1 795-' 98. 

[Grandson of Philemon Charles and Helen Smith 
Wederstrandt. Philemon Charles Wederstrandt 
(1776-1854), of Maryland, Commodore, U. S. Navy, 
was appointed Midshipman in 1798, when the American 
Navy was organized, and was one of the officers 
of the "Constellation,"* thanked by Congress in 
1799, for the victories over the frigates " L'insurgent " 
and "La Vengeance." He also served on the 
"Java" as a volunteer at the siege of Baltimore, 
September, 1814.J 

[Great-grandson of Theodore Conrad and Mary 
Blake Wederstrandt: great-great-grandson of John 
Sawyer and Sara Darnall Blake. John Sawyer Blake, 
of" Wye River," Queen Anne Co., Md., patriot, contrib- 
uted supplies and money to the support of the Conti- 
nental Army. Charles Carroll, Barrister (i723-'83), 
of "Mt. Clare," patriot, author of the Maryland Decla- 
ration of Rights, etc., was his nephew. John Carroll 
(1735-1817), Archbishop of Baltimore, patriot, was 
Mrs. Blake's nephew, and Charles Carroll of Carroll- 
ton (1737-1832), the last surviving signer of the Decla- 
ration of Independence, was a collateral relative.J 

[Great-great-great-grandson of Henry Darnall, Sr., of 
"The Woodyard," Prince George Co., Md., Judge and 
Register of the Land Office of Maryland.] 



•The frigate was put in commission before she was finished, and the olTicers were 
all on board when she was launched. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 57 



Maj. Howard Morton. 155 

(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.) 

Merchant. Born in Stoystown, Pa., January 2, 1842. 

Son of Randall and Crissia A. Wilson Morton : grand- 
son of Dexter and Hamiah Mtinson Bunce Morton : 
great-grandson of Simeon and Sybel Graves Morton: 
great-great-grandson of Simeon and Miriam Dickinson 
Morton. Simeon Morton, Sr. (lyas-'gS), and Simeon 
Morton, Jr., of Whately, Mass., were privates in 
Capt. Isaac Chapin's Company, Col. John Fellows' 
Regiment, Mass. Militia. Simeon Morton, Jr., was in 
service for many months. 

Great-grandson of Noah Clark, private, Essex Troop 
of Light Horse (Capt. Meeker), New Jersey Militia, in 
service at the battle of Long Island, and in the New 
Jersey and Pennsylvania Campaigns.* 

Hon. Levi Parsons Morton. 84 

Vice President of the United States. Born in Shoreham, Vt., May i6, 1824. 

Son of Daniel Oliver and Lucretia Parsons Morton: 
grandson of Livy and Hannah Dailey Morton. Livy 
Morton, of Middleboro, Mass., was private in the Sec- 
ond Foot Company, Colonel Sproutt's Regiment, Massa- 
chusetts Militia, in service December, 1776, in the sea- 
coast defense of Rhode Island, and in similar service, 
August, 1780, in Colonel White's Regiment, Militia; also 
in service, on two alarms, in May and September, 1778. 

Edward Augustus Moseley. 41 

Secretary, Inter-State Commerce Commission. Born in Newburyport, 
Mass., March 23, 1846. 

Son of Edward Strong and Charlotte A. Chapman 
Moseley : grandson of Ebenezer and Mary Ann Oxnard 
Moseley: great-grandson of Ebenezer and Martha 
Strong Moseley. Ebenezer Moseley (i 741-1825), patriot 
and soldier, of Windham, Conn., as Lieutenant of Min- 
utemen marched to Lexington on the alarm of April, 



*See records of H. L. Crane and G. Brown Goode, above. 



58 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

1775; as Captain of the gth Company, in the 3d Regi- 
ment, Conn. Continental Line (Col. Israel Putnam), 
fought at Bunker Hill; he was Captain in Ripley's Bat- 
talion, Connecticut State Line, in the Rhode Island 
campaigns, and in Col. Ely's State Regiment, 1777; 
Colonel of the 5th Regiment, Connecticut Militia, 
i789-'9i; Member of the Connecticut Legislature, 
i776-'78-'79-'83; and a member of the Massachusetts 
Society of the Cincinnati. His brother, Samuel Moseley, 
private, 3d Connecticut Reg't, was killed at Bunker Hill. 

Robert Brent Mosher. 119 

Clerk, War Department. Born in Washington, D. C, December 6, 1836. 

Son of Theodore and Mary Breyit Mosher: grandson 
of James and Eliza Magruder Mosher: great-grandson 
of James and Ann Gray Mosher. James Mosher (1760- 
1845), of Roxbury, Mass., marched with the Pepperrell 
Minutemen, April 19, 1775, and was drummer, i777-'8o, 
in the 8th Massachusetts Bay Regiment, in the New Jer- 
sey campaign, and at Valley Forge. 

[Grandson of Robert Young Brent, Paymaster Gen- 
eral, U. S. A., during the War of 1812. (i8o8-'i9).] 

Great-grandson of Ninian Magruder, of Montgomery 
Co., Md., private, Maryland State Troops. 

Samuel Eccleston Mullan. 154 

Printer. Born in Baltimore, Md., April 14, 1841. 

Son of Jonathan and Sarah Pai7ie Mullan: grandson 
of Patrick and Sarah Askew Mullan. Patrick Mullan 
(1744-1816), a native of Ireland, was a private, i777-'8o, 
in the 6th Regiment, Maryland Continental Line, and in 
another regiment from Maryland, in LaFayette's corps, 
aided in storming the British works at Yorktown, 
Oct. 19, 1781. 

Jacob Jackson Noah. 68 

Lawyer and journalist. Born in New York City, October 6, 1S30. 

Son of Mordecai and Rebecca Esther Jackso7i Noah. 
[Major Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851) was cap- 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 59 

tured and imprisoned on a British frigate, while pro- 
ceeding, in 1813, to his post as U. S. Consul General at 
Tunis, where he liberated many American prisoners.] 

Grandson of Manuel Mordecai and Zipporah Phillips 
Noah. Manuel Mordecai Noah (1747-1825), patriot 
and soldier, contributed ;,^2o,ooo to the support of 
the American Army, and served as a Volunteer Aide to 
Gen. Marion in the Carolina Campaign. 

Capt. Galen Griffin Norton. 137 

Born in Norway, N. Y., June 12, 1S19. 

Son of Isaac and Sybil Wright Norton : grandson of 
Isaac and A^ina Griffi7i Norton : great-grandson of Jon- 
athan Norton (1742-1837), of Brookhaven, N. Y., a 
soldier under Gen. Bradstreet in the old French and 
Indian War, and Lieutenant in the 4th Regiment, New 
York Continental Line, i776-'8i, and fought at Mon- 
mouth, and who, in 1781, was secretly commissioned by 
Gov. Clinton to secure loans of money from the 
wealthy Whigs of Long Island, and to conceal his work 
was made Captain of a small vessel — the "Suffolk;" 
at his death, in 1837, he was the oldest member of the 
New York Society of the Cincinnati. 

Col. Myron Melvin Parker. 112 

President of the Washington Board of Trade. Born in Fairfax, Vt., No- 
vember 7, 1843. 

[Son of Melvin V. and Emeline Story Parker: grand- 
son of Robert and Sophia Cross Parker: great-grand- 
son of Robert Parker, a private in the Revolutionary 
Army.] 

[Grandson of Elijah and Cressy Story: great- 
grandson of Elijah Story, of Fairfax, Vt., a soldier of 
the Revolution.] 

Great-grandson of Joseph and Persis Wheeler Cross. 
Joseph Cross, who died in 1850, at the age of 103, 
served at Lexington and Bunker Hill. 

Great-grandson of John Cressy, a native of Connecti- 
cut, who served with the Continental Army at Brooklyn, 



6o SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

White Plains, Brandywine, Germantown, and York- 
town. 

Henry Hovey Parmenter. 69 

Clerk, Quartermaster General's Office. Born in Sudbury, Mass., December 
29, 1841. 

Son of Charles and Farmie Goodnow Parmenter: 
grandson of Ebenezer and Anji Wheeler Parmenter. 
Ebenezer Pakmenter ( 1 761- 1 85 i) was a private in the 
Mihtia of Sudbury, Mass. 

Francis H. Parsons. iss 

Chief of Library and Archives Division, U. S. Coast Survey. Born in 
Cleveland, C, January 23, 1855. 

Son of Charles Henry and Sarah Rice Parsons: grand- 
son of David and Elizabeth Williams Parsons: great- 
grandson of Rev. Dr. David and Harriet Williams Par- 
sons: great-great-grandson of Ezekiel Williams, Gov- 
ernment Commissioner of Prisoners for Connecticut in 
the Revolution. Great-great-grandson of Rev. Elifha- 
LET Williams, D. D. (1727-1803), patriot, of East Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

[Great-great-grandnephew of Col. William Wil- 
liams (1731-1811), of Lebanon, Conn., patriot, who was 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Member 
of the Council of Safety, and whose wife was the 
daughter of Gov. Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut — 
Washington's " Brother Jonathan." Great-grandnephew 
of Rev. Eliphalet Scott Williams (1757-1845), who 
served as Adjutant in a Connecticut Regiment at Tren- 
ton and Princeton, and afterwards entering the Navy, 
fought in the engagement between the " Hancock" and 
the " Levant."] 

Grandson of Ezekiel and Bethia Merriam Rice. 
Ezekiel Rice (1739- 1808), of Wallingford, Conn., was 
Sergeant in Crouch's Company of Minutemen, who 
marched at the Lexington alarm. 

Great-grandson of Ephraim Merriam, of Wallingford, 
Conn., fifer in the "Leather-Cap Regiment" (6th 
Conn. Continental Line), i777-'8i. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 6i 



Jesse David Bright Peters. • 13 

Clerk, Census Office. Born in Washington, D. C, November 22, 1851. 

Son of Thomas and Hester A. Cohen Peters: grand- 
son of Thomas and Rebecca Johnson Peters. Thomas 
Peters (1752-1821), of Philadelphia, was Commissary- 
General of Prisoners at Yorktown, Pa. : he was one of 
the original members of the ist Troop, Philadelphia 
Cavalry, 1774, in service at Princeton and Trenton, and 
under General Mercer at Amboy, N. J., 1776. His 
brother, Richard Peters (1744-1828), of Philadelphia, 
was first Secretary of the Continental Board of War, 
later Commissioner of War, and the organizer of the 
War Department, and was the first to detect the treach- 
ery of Benedict Arnold. 

Rear Admiral Thomas Stowell Phelps, U. S. N. 

Born in Bucl?field, Me., November 2, 1822. 1 66 

Honorary Member, and Member of the Massachusetts Society, 
Sons of the American Revolution. 

Son of Stephen and Elizabeth Stowell Phelps : grand- 
son of Henry Phelps, of Sutton, Mass., Corporal of 
Minutemen, 1775, and private, Massachusetts Militia, 
i776-'77, and his wife, Lucy Putnam, whose cousins 
were Gen. Israel Putnam (i7i8-'9o) and Gen. Rufus 
Putnam (1738- 1824): great-grandson of Lieut. Abra- 
ham Phelps.* 

Grandson of William and Catharine Nixon Stowell : 
great-grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth Parker 
Stowell. Benjamin Stowell, of Worcester, Mass., was 
a soldier of the Revolution, and received land grants in 
the Province of Maine. 

Great-grandson of Thomas and Berthia Stearns \ 
Nixon. Col. Thomas Nixon (1736-1800), of Framing- 
ham, Mass., soldier, was an Ensign in the war of 1756; 
was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Crown Point 

*A lineal descendant of George Phelps, of Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England, 

who came to America in 1630. 
t Berthia Stearns was fifth in descent from Isaac Stern, or Stearns, who came to 

America in 1630, with Gov. Winthrop. 



62 SONS OF THE AMHRICAN REVOLUTION. 



expedition; a Lieutenant Colonel of a regiment of Min- 
utemen at Concord, April 19, 1775; also Lieutenant 
Colonel of Nixon's Regiment at Bunker Hill. His 
brother, Gen. John Nixon (1725-1815), was Captain of 
Minutemen at Lexington ; commanded a regiment at 
Bunker Hill, where he was wounded ; was commissioned 
Brigadier General, 1776, and was again wounded at 
Stillwater. 

Admiral David Dixon Porter, U. S. N. i 

Admiral, U. S. Navy. Born in Chester, Pa., June 8, 1813. 

President of the Society. Original member, and Honorary Vice Presi- 
dent General of the National Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution. 

Great-grandson of Captain Alexander Porter (born 
1727), patriot, who, though too old to bear arms, "was 
present at the 'Boston Tea-party,' moulded bullets for 
the battle of 'Bunker Hill,' and set an example of re- 
sistance to the British crown."* 

Grandson of David Porter (1754-1808), Captain in 
the Continental Privateer Service, who commanded 
several armed vessels, among them the sloop "De- 
light," of six guns, fitted out in Maryland, and the ship 
"Aurora," of ten guns, belonging to the State of Mass- 
achusetts; escaping from the prison-ship "Jersey," he 
was actively engaged as a privateersman until the end 
of the war, when he v/as commissioned by Washington 
a Sailing Master in the new Navy. 

[Son of David Porter (1780- 1843), as a youth, in 
the merchant service, twice impressed by British ships- 
of-war. Midshipman, U. S. N., 1798, and Captain, 



* When the war broke out there was a leaden statue of King George the Third in 
the city of New York. This the citizens threw down and dragged through the 
streets. Part of the lead was sent to Boston, and old Alexander Porter obtained 
a portion of one arm of the statue, and, with the assistance of his patriotic wife, 
converted it into bullets which were used by the soldiers at Bunker Hill. 

"Margaret," said the old man to his wife, " this king's right arm, which has so 
long been held in respect, will shortly deal such a blow against his own troops as 
neither he nor they ever anticipated." 

Alexander Porter survived the Revolution, and lived to see the American flag float- 
ing from all the spires in Boston. Reminiscences of Admiral Porter. 




ROBERT TREAT PAINE 

|l-H()\l A I'AI.NI l.\(; I.\ IM)KI'KM)F.M:E hall, I'HILADKLI'Ha] 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 63 



1812, who, as commander of the "Essex," did so 
much for the perpetuation of American Independence.] 

Grandson of William Anderson (1763-1829), of Ches- 
ter, Pa., patriot and soldier, Aide to Laf^iyette at Bran- 
dywine, where he was wounded, and in service, as 
Colonel, at Valley Forge, Germantown and Yorktown. 

[Greatnephew of Samuel Porter, of Massachusetts, 
Captain in the privateer service, who died in the British 
prison-ship "Jersey,'" in 1778.] 

Charles Debrille Poston. us 

(Phoenix, Arizona.) 

First Delegate in Congress from Arizona. Born in Hardin Co., Ky., April 

20, 1825. 

Son of Temple Debrill, and grandson of Charles 
Debrill (1757-1840), of Rockingham Co., Va., private 
of Militia, 1775, and Minuteman in service in the Lewis 
and Christie, North Carolina, campaign of 1776, Ensign 
of Militia and Convention Guards, 1777, and under 
Lafayette in 1781, and present at the surrender of York- 
town; later Captain of Kentucky Troops in Harmar's 
Expedition, 1790. 

Daniel Webster Prentiss, M. D. 173 

Physician and Professor of Materia Medica in Columbian University. Born 
in Washington City, May 21, 1843. 

Son of William Henry and Sarah Anji Cooper Pren- 
tiss : grandson of William and Eunice Payne Greenleaf 
Prentiss : great-grandson of Joseph and Abigail Paine 
Greenleaf. Joseph Greenleaf (1720-1810), of Boston, 
was Member of the Committee of Correspondence, Safety 
and Inspection, i776-'77, and of the Port Bill "Com- 
mittee of Sixty." He was the author of the Abington 
Declaration of Rights, adopted in 1770.* 

[Great-grandnephew of Hon. Robert Treat Paine, 
LL. D. (1731-1814), of Boston, patriot. Signer of the 
Declaration of Independence, and Member of the Con- 

* He was great-grandson of Lieut. Enoch Greenleaf, of York, an officer under 
Gen. Monk, in the army of Cromwell. 



64 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

tinental Congress and the Massachusetts Constitutional 
Convention.] 

Hon. Redfield Proctor. 192 

Secretary of War. 

Honorary Member. President of the Vermont Society, S. A. R. 

Grandson of Leonard Proctor, Lieutenant of a 
Company of Massachusetts Minutemen, April 19, 1775, 
and later Captain of Massachusetts Troops, in service at 
Trenton and Monmouth. 

Col. Felix Alexander Reeve. 9 

Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury. Born in Cocke Co., Tenn., September 
4, 1836. 

Son of Thomas Jefferson and Rebecca Ann Ea?'nest 
Reeve: grandson of Felix and Sarah Oliphant Earnest. 
Felix Earnest (1762-1842), of Greene Co., Tenn., a na- 
tive of Newtown, Va., served under Col. John Sevier 
at King's Mountain, and was successively private. Ensign 
and Lieutenant of North Carolina Volunteers. 

Philip Key Reily. 129 

Stenographer. Born in Washington City, April i, 1829. 

Son of Thomas B. and Rebecca Key Reily : grandson 
of William Hodgkin Reily (d. 1824), of Baltimore Co., 
Md., Lieutenant of Baltimore County Militia, and in 
Hall's Battalion of the Maryland Flying Camp; Captain 
and Brevet Major, 4th Regiment, Maryland Continental 
Line; a member of the Maryland Society of the 
Cincinnati. 

William Jones Rhees. 14 

Chief Clerk of the Smithsonian Institution. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 
13, 1830. 

Son of Dr. Benjamin Rush and Margaret Grace Evans 
Rhees: grandson of Rev. Morgan John and An7i Loxley 
Rhees: great-grandson of Benjamin and Catharine Cox 
Loxley. Benjamin Loxley (1720-1801), of Philadelphia, 
Pa., Captain of the First Artillery Company of Pennsyl- 




REV. FELIX EARNEST 

[KRU.M a SKKTCil KV HOKACK KKKVe] 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 65 

vania, 1776, in service at Valley Forge, etc. ; Member of 
the Philadelphia Committee of Safety, 1776. He made 
cannon, travelling shops and fireworks for the Con- 
tinental army, and for two years gave instructions to 
the Militia in the State House yard in the use of cannon 
and small arms. p^ .» ^•V-Nixi' 

^ Great-grandson of Sffli&t and ' ^f^tf^fS ^- Lazi'n ^vnns. ^ ,,,.* 
^|^i>ipvANS (il^^iSir was4toi2^ ■m^m^/3^^^^^ 
Pennsylvania and was at Brandywine and Germantown. 

Owen Riley. 146 

Clerk, Post Office Department. Born in Pultney, N. Y., July 19, 1824. 

Son of Owen and Rhoda Stewart Riley : grandson of 
Joseph and Lydia Stewart. Joseph Stewart (b. 1759), 
of Middlesex Co., Conn., was private in the 4th 
Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, State Troops, and in 
other militia service in the sea coast defense of Con- 
necticut and Rhode Island, i777-'79, and in the ist and 
5th Regiments, Conn. Continental Line, 1780, in service 
at West Point. 

Henry Alfred Robbins, M. D. 89 

Physician. Born in St. Louis, Mo., February 9, 1839. 

Son of Zenas Coleman and Mary J. Tilde^i Robbins : 
grandson of Richard Swift and Evalina Ellen Byrd 
Tilden: great-grandson of John Bell 2.ndijane Chambers 
Tilden. Lieut. John Bell Tilden, M. D. (1761-1835), 
of Philadelphia, was Ensign (May 28, 1779) and Lieu- 
tenant (July 25, 1780) in the 2d Regiment, Pennsyl- 
vania Continental Line, i779-'8i, in service at the 
siege of Yorktown; a Member of the Pennsylvania 
Society of the Cincinnati. 

Samuel Augustine Robinson. io6 

Superintendent of Drainage and Plumbing, District of Columbia. Born 
in Washington City, August ii, 1849. 

Son of William and Francis H. P. Turner Robinson : 
grandson of William and Margaret Williamson Robin- 



66 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

son: great-grandson of William Robinson, and great- 
great-grandson of Maximilian Robinson. William and 
Maximilian Robinson, of Westmoreland Co., Va., were 
Signers of the Westmoreland Association; the former a 
Member of the House of Burgesses which passed the 
Stamp Act Resolution in 1765. 

Great-grandson of Dr. Walter and Mildred Wash- 
ington Williamson: great-great-grandson of John 
Washington, Captain of Cavalry, Virginia State Line, 
i782-'83. 

Capt. Clinton Brooks Sears, U. S. A. 29 

(Whitestone, New York.) 

Captain, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Born in Penn Yan, N. Y., June 2, 
1844. 

Son of Rev. Clinton William and Angeline Brooks 
Sears : grandson of Moses and Lydia Ransom Brooks : 
great-grandson of Samuel and Mary Nesbiti Ransom : 
great-great-grandson of Capt. Samuel and Esther 
Lawrence Ransom. Samuel Ransom (i 737-1 778), of 
Norfolk, Conn., and Plymouth, Pa., October, 1775, 
Captain of 3d Company, 21st Regiment, Connecticut 
Militia; August 26, 1776, Captain of 2d (Connecticut 
and Pennsylvania) Wyoming Valley Company, serving 
at Brandy wine, Germantown, and elsewhere; killed at 
Wyoming, July 3, 1778.* 

Col. Franklin Austin Seely. 162 

Principal Examiner, U. S. Patent Office. Born in Wayne Co., Pa., April 4, 
1834. 

Son of Richard Lewis and Maria Terrey Seely : grand- 
son of John Williamson and Elizabeth Williams Seely: 
great-grandson of Sylvanus and Jane Willia?nso?i Seely. 
Col. Sylvanus Seely (1743-1821), of Chatham, N. J., 
was Captain, 1776, Major, 1777, and Colonel, 1777, ^^ 



*A biographical s!<etch of Captain Ransom is given in "A Genealogical Record of 
the Descendants of Captain Samuel Ransom, of the Continental Army," by 
Captain Sears. 




GEN. ARTHUR ST. CLAIR 

[KKUM .\ SKETCH BV COL. JONATH.AN J'Rr.Mr.lll, 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 67 

the Eastern Battalion, Morris Co., N. J., Militia, in ser- 
vice at the battles of Long Island and Springfield, and 
detailed to cover Washington's retreat upon the evacua- 
tion of New York. 

William Henry Harrison Sheets. 93 

(Gunston Hall, Virginia.) 

Planter. Born in Indianapolis, Ind., August 9, 1818. 

Son of William and Mary Skipwith Randolph Sheets: 

grandson of Thomas and Lawrence Randolph: 

great-grandson of Thomas Isham and Jane Gary Ran- 
dolph : great-great-grandson of Archibald and Mary 
Randolph Gary. Archibald Gary (i73o-'86), of Ghes- 
terfield Go., Va., patriot, was Gounty Lieutenant and 
Golonel, Member of the Stamp Act Committee of 1765, 
the Convention of 1776, and of the Committee of Cor- 
respondence. 

Great-grandson of John Lawrence, whose wife was 
the daughter of Gen. Arthur St. Glair. Arthur St. 
Glair (1735-1818), of Pennsylvania, was Golonel, 2d 
Pennsylvania Regiment, 1776; Brigadier General at 
Trenton and Princeton, 1776; Major General, i777-'83; 
in constant service. Subsequently first Governor of the 
Northwestern Territory, 1789-1802. 

William Carlysle Shelley. 131 

Chief of Depredations Division, Indian Office. Born in Roane Co., Tenn., 
August 12, 1854. 

Son of James T. and Martha J. McElwee Shelley: 
grandson of William and Luanda Eblen McElwee: 
great-grandson of James McElwee, private in Col. Wil- 
liam Campbell's Regiment of Washington Gounty, 
Va., Riflemen, and afterwards under Shelby at King's 
Mountain. 

Hon. John Sherman. 5 

United States Senator from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, O., May lo, 1823. 

Son of Charles R. and Mary Hoyt Sherman : grand- 
son of Taylor and Elizabeth Stoddard Sherman : great- 



68 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

grandson of Daniel and Mindwell Minn Sherman. 
Daniel Sherman (1721-1799), of Woodbury, Conn., 
patriot, was District Judge, Member of the General As- 
sembly, and Member of the Connecticut Council of 
Safety. 

Jonathan Leavitt Smith. 48 

Born in Strafford, N. H., April 9, 1820. 

Son of David and Manilla Hebbard Smith: grandson 
of Stephen and Mary Bean Smith. Stephen SxMITH 
(1761-1834), of Brentwood, N. H., private in the New 
Hampshire Line, was in service at West Point, N. Y., 
under Gen. Benedict Arnold, at the time of his treason, 
in 1780. 

Merwin-Marie Snell. 179 

Secretary to the Rector of the Catholic University of America. Born in 
New Haven, Conn., August 2, 1863. 

Son of Rev. Moses Porter and Mary Cordelia Hallock 
Snell: grandson of Gerard and Eliza Alleji Hallock: 
great-grandson of Moses and Peggy Alle?i Hallock. 
Rev. Moses Hallock (1760-1837), of Plainfield, Mass., 
served as a private in the Massachusetts Militia in 
i776-'77, and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. 

Grandson of Thomas and Liicretia Colt Porter Snell : 
great-grandson of Col. Moses and Susannah Edwards 
Porter: great-great-grandson of Rev. Jonathan Ed- 
wards, D. D., whose son, Pierrepont Edwards, of 
New Haven, a private in the Governor's Foot Guards, 
marched at the alarm of Lexington. 

Richard Henry Spencer. 19 

Lawyer. Born in Talbot Co.. Md., November 26, 1833. 

Son of Henry and Ayina M. Marti7i Spencer: grand- 
son of Richard and Eleanor Hopkins Spencer. Richard 
Spencer (1760-1819), of "Beverly," Talbot Co., Md., 
private in the Maryland Line, entered the service at 
the age of sixteen, and was present at Brandywine 
and Germantown, and at Valley Forge, 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 69 

[Great-grandnephew of Hon. Nicholas Thomas (1728- 
'84), of Talbot Co., Md., Member of the Conventions 
of the Province of MaryLind, held in Annapolis, 1774- 
'75-'76; Member of the Committee of Safety; appointed 
by the first Governor of the State of Maryland, Hon. 
Thomas Johnson, Judge of the General Court, March 9, 
1778: also great-grandnephew of Nicholas Martin, of 
Talbot Co., Md., Captain of the 38th Battalion, Mary- 
land Line, 1776.] 



Joshua Otis Stanton, M. D. 140 

Physician. Born in Strafford, N. H., October 22, 1837. 

Son of Ezra and Polly Otis Stanton: grandson of 
William and Margaret Holmes "Stanton : great-grandson 
of William and Elizabeth Brock Stanton. William 
Stanton (i737-'77), of Bennington, N. H., was private 
in John Hill's Company, New Hampshire Militia, in 
service in defense of Piscataqua Harbor, 1775. 

Francis Osmond St. Clair, M. D. 70 

Chief of Consular Bureau, Department of State. Born in Barre, N. Y., 
January 27, 1836. 

Son of Charles Northrop and Elmina Baldwin Turrill 
St. Clair: grandson of James and Patience Northrop St. 
Clair: great-grandson of James and Sarah Hunt St. 
Clair. James St. Clair* (1756-1836), of Sanbornton, 
N. H., served in the Continental Army as Ranger and 
Sergeant, was at Lexington, Bunker Hill, Brandywine, 
Monmouth, Valley Forge and Saratoga, and received 
the badge of merit for six years' faithful service. 

Robert Edwards Carter Stearns. 169 

Paleontologist, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Boston, February i, 

1827. 

Son of Charles and Sarah Carter Stearns: grandson 
of Robert and Sarah Rand Carter: great-grandson of 



•Great-grandson of John Sinclair, Master of Sinclair and Roslin, in Scotland. 



70 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Nathaniel Rand, of Bow Street, Charlestown, whose 
house and property were burned by the British, June 
17. 1775' was a private of Middlesex Militia, who fought 
at Bunker Hill, and later detailed as Superintendent of 
the Military Bakery at Cambridge. Sarah Rand, his 
daughter — a girl of sixteen — served as a scout to warn 
the colonists of the approach of the British boats before 
the battle of Bunker Hill. 

Hon. William Strong, LL. D. 

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, retired. Born in 
Somers, Conn., May 6, 180S. 

Honorary Member. 

Son of Rev. William L. and Harriet De7ning Strong: 
grandson of Adonijah and Abigail Bates Strong. Adonijah 
Strong (1743-1813), of Coventry, Conn., was Commis- 
sary of the 4th Regiment, Connecticut Continental Line, 
1775, and in 1776 (January 23), was commissioned ist 
Lieutenant, Bigelow's Artillery, Connecticut Continen- 
tal Line; he was a Member of the Connecticut Society 
of the Cincinnati. 

Wilson Budd Strong. (New York city.) 72 

Born at Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y., March 3, 1S60. 

Son of George C. and Margaret E. Budd Strong: 
grandson of David L. and Harriet Fry Strong: great- 
grandson of Job Strong, whose wife was the daughter 
of David Lyman (1737-1822), of Hampshire Co., Mass., 
Lieutenant in Wales' Company, Dickenson's Regiment, 
Massachusetts Militia, and subsequently on duty as 
Aide-de-Camp. 

Alfred Bissell Talcott. 128 

Electrician, House of Representatives. Born in Glastonbury, Conn., June 
30, 1825. 

Son of Jared Goodrich and Electa Bissell Talcott: 
grandson of George and Abigail Goodrich Talcott: 
great-grandson of Elizur and Ruth Wright Talcott. 
Col. Elizur Talcott (i709-'97), of Glastonbury, Conn., 
patriot and soldier, Chairman of the Town Meeting of 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 7 1 

Glastonbury at which the Boston Port Bill was de- 
nounced, and Colonel of 6th Regiment, Connecticut 
Militia, i775-'76, in service at the battle of Long Island 
and the occupation of New York, 1776. 

Fred. Elmer Tasker. 174 

Lawyer and Patent Attorney. Born in Manchester, N. H., May 9, 1862. 

Son of John C. and Marietta Smith Tasker: grandson 
of David and Hawiah Royce Smith : great-grandson of 
Elijah and Polly Nichols Smith. Elijah Smith (1763- 
1840), of Putney, Vt., served as private in the Vermont 
Militia, Col. Ira Allen's Regiment, 1781, and in other 
regiments in 1780 and 1783. 

[Grandson of Jonathan and Polly C. Tasker: great- 
grandson of Joshua and Betsy Gerrish Hoyt, whose four 
brothers, Lieut. Daniel Hoyt, Richard Hoyt, Benjamin 
Hoyt, and Stephen Hoyt, served in the New Hamp- 
shire Line.] 

Gen. George Thom, U. S. A. 199 

Colonel of Engineers and Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. A., retired. Born 
in Derry, N. H., February 21, 1819. 

Son of James and Harriet Coffin Thom : grandson of 
Dr. Isaac and Persis Sergeant Thom. Isaac Thom, M. D. 
(1746-1825), of Londonderry, N. H., was Member of 
the local Committee of Public Safety. 

Grandson of William and Mary Langdon Coffin. 
William Coffin, M. D. (1756-1827), of Gloucester, Mass., 
held a commission as Midshipman in the British Navy : 
he went, about 1775, to France to complete his medical 
studies, and returning home just before the beginning 
of the Revolution, he resigned his commission and was 
appointed Surgeon of the brig "Tyrannicide," a colony 
cruiser and public-armed vessel of fourteen guns. 

Prof. Gilbert Thompson. 113 

Chiief Geographer, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Blackstone, Mass., 
March 21, 1839. 

Son of William Vincent and Harriet Gilbert Thomp- 
son : grandson of Judson and Mary Gannett Gilbert: 



72 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

great-grandson of Nathaniel and Mary Keeth Gilbert. 
Nathaniel Gilbert (1747-18 14), of Easton, Mass., 
marched with Capt. Macey Williams' Company of Min- 
utemen on the alarm of Lexington, 1778, fought under 
Capt. Robinson at the battle of Quaker Hill, R. !., and 
in 1780 was also on duty in Rhode Island with the 
Easton Militia. 

Grandson of Benjamin and Deborah Sa?npson Gannett. 
Deborah Sampson (1760-1827), of Massachusetts, served 
in the Revolution as a private soldier. In an affidavit 
by her when she relinquished her invalid pension 
and received the benefits of the Acts of Congress, 
March 18, 1818, she testified as here copied in part: 
"Deborah Gannett, of Sharon, . . . County of Nor- 
folk, . . . District of Massachusetts, . . . maketh oath 
that she served as a private soldier, under the name 
of Robert Shurtleff, in the War of the Revolution, 
upwards of two years, in manner following, viz: 
Enlisted in April, 1781, in company commanded by 
Capt. George Webb, in the Massachusetts Regiment 
commanded by Col. Shepherd, and afterwards by Col. 
Henry Jackson, and served . . . until November, 1783, 
when she was honorably discharged in writing, which 
discharge is lost; . . . she was at the capture of Corn- 
wallis, was wounded at Tarrytown, and now receives a 
pension from the United States, . . . etc., . . . " — Massa- 
chusetts District, September 14, 18 18. 

In January, 1792, she petitioned the Legislature of 
Massachusetts, and stated that "from zeal for the good 
of her country was induced, and by the name of Robert 
Shirtleff did, on May 20, 1782, enlist as a soldier in the 
Continental service for three years, in the 4th Regiment; 
. . . was mustered in the 23d of same month; . . . was 
wounded; . . . continued in service until discharged by 
General Knox at West Point, October 25, 1783." 

A resolve was passed in accordance with this peti- 
tion, January 19, 1792, signed by John Hancock, and 
she was paid thirty-four pounds, the note bearing 
interest from October 23, 1783 (about $100). 




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so;k. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 73 

There is a difficulty that she testifies to different years 
of entering the service, viz: 1781 and 1782. It is a 
tradition in the family that she was at Yorktown at 
surrender of Cornwallis. Mr. James Adams Vinton, in 
his notes to a reprint of the work, "The Female Re- 
view," considers 1782 the correct date. She was 
wounded severely several times, and always bore an 
unblemished character.* 

Gen. Edward Davis Townsend, U. S. A. 28 

Adjutant General, U. S. A., retired. Born in Boston, Mass., August 22, 1817. 

[Son of David S. and Eliza Gerry Townsend. Major 
David S. Townsend, U. S. A. (1790-1853), was Captain 
of the 9th Infantry, in the War of 18 12, lost a leg at 
Chrystler's Fields, November, 1813, and subsequently 
served as Assistant Adjutant-General and Battalion Pay- 
master U. S. A.] 

Grandson of David and Elizabeth Townsend. David 
Townsend, M. D. (1753-1829), of Boston, was Surgeon 
in the Massachusetts Line, and an original Member of 
the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. 

Grandson of Eldridge and Ann Thompson Gerry. 
Eldridge Gerry (1744-1813), statesman and patriot, 
was Member of the Massachusetts Committee of Cor- 
respondence, 1773, of the First Provincial Congress, 
i774-'75. ^nd the Continental Congress; and Signer of 
the Declaration of Independence. 

Frederick William True. 22 

Curator in the U. S. National Museum. Born in Middletown, Conn , July 
8, 1858. 

Son of Rev. Dr. Charles Kittredge and Elizabeth B. 
Hyde True: grandson of Rev. Edward and Elizabeth 

*See " Genealogical Memoirs of the Sampson Family in America, from the arrival 
of the Mayflower, in 1620, to the present time, including a Biographical Sketch 
of Deborah Sampson, the heroine of the Revolution. By John Adams Vinton. 
Boston, 1864 (with portrait)." 

Also see "The Female Review; or, Memoirs of an American Young Lady, etc., 
etc. By a citizen of Massachusetts. Dedham, . . . MDCCXVII." (i797-) 
With portrait. 

Reprint of the same, Boston, Mass., MDCCCLXXI. John Adams Vinton, Editor. 
With portrait. 



74 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Cambridge Hyde: great-grandson of James and Martha 
Nevhis Hyde. James Hyde, of Bean Hill, Norwich, 
Conn., was Sergeant, 1777, and Ensign, 1777, 4th Reg- 
iment, Connecticut Continental Line, Ensign, i777-'8i, 
and First Lieutenant, i78i-'83, in the ist Regiment, 
Connecticut Continental Line, in service at German- 
town, Valley Forge, Monmouth, White Plains, Stony 
Point, and Yorktown. 

Hon. Zebulon Baird Vance. 165 

U. S. Senator. Governor of North Carolina, i862-'65, i876-'78. Born in 
Buncombe Co., N. C, May 13, 1830. 

Honorary Member. Member of the North Carolina Society. 

Son of David and Margaret M. Baird Vance : grand- 
son of David and Prisdlla Brank Vance. David Vance 
(d. 1820), a native of Frederick Co., Va., was a partisan 
soldier under McDowell, who fought at King's Mountain 
and Guilford, and is believed to have been present at 
Yorktown.* 

Hon. Edward Carrington Venable. 30 

Member of the House of Representatives from Virginia. Born in Prince 
Edward Co., Va., January 31, 1853. 

Son of Samuel Woodward and Elizabeth Travis Ven- 
able: grandson of Nathaniel and Mary Embra Scott 
Venable: great-grandson of Samuel Woodson and 
Mary Carrington Venable. CoL. Samuel Woodson 
Venable (1756-1822), of Prince Edward Co., Va., was 
Ensign in Watkins' Troop of Horse, in service in the 
Southern Department, and famous for its efficiency at 
Guilford C. H. 

Dallas Bache Wainwright. 73 

Assistant, Coast and Geodetic Survey. Born in Washington, D. C, Decem- 
ber 12, 1852. 

Son of Commander Richard and Sally Franklin 
Bache Wainwright: grandson of Richard and Sophia 



'•Of the men who served under McDowell we have little information, as no 
records were kept of their numerous expeditions. David Vance was a conspic- 
uous figure in all the campaigns, and to the Vance-Henry memoranda we are 
largely indebted for the information we have of these men. Vance was too 
modest to record his own exploits, and they are lost." 

ScHENCK, North Carolina in the Revolution , p. 220. 




ELBRIDGE GERRY 

[from an old painting] 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 75 

Dallas Bache: great-grandson of Richard and Sarah 
Franklin Bache. Richard Bache (1737-1811), of Phila- 
delphia, patriot, Secretary, Comptroller, and Register 
General of Pennsylvania, i775-'76; first Postmaster 
General of the United States, 1^76-82, and Member of 
the Pennsylvania Board of War. His brother, Theo- 
PHYLACT Bache (1734- 1807), of New York City, patriot, 
was Member of the Non-Intercourse, the Correspond- 
ence Committees, etc., etc. 

Great-great-grandson of Benjamin and Deborah Read 
Franklin. Benjamin Franklin (i7o6-'go), patriot, was 
a Signer of the Declaration of Independence and served 
the young Republic as a soldier, as a legislator, as an 
administrator, as a man of science, as Colonial Agent 
in England, and as Minister to France. 

Gen. Duncan Stephen Walker. 33 

Editor and lawyer. Born in Washington, D. C, November ii, 1841. 

Robert John Walker. 79 

Born in Washington, D. C, September 4, 1846. 

Sons of the Hon. Robert John and Mary Blechynden 
Bache Walker: grandsons of Richard ?ind Sophia Dallas 
Bache : great-grandsons of Richard and Sarah Franklin 
Bache: great-great-grandsons of Benjamin and Deborah 
Read Franklin. Benjamin Franklin's biography is a 
history of the American Revolution. 

Grandsons of Jonathan Hoge and Lucretia Duncan 
Walker. Jonathan Hoge Walker was a private in 
Arnold's Canada Expedition, and in 1779 was in the 
Seneca Campaign against the British and the Indians. 

Lawrence Washington. 183 

(Marshall, Fauquier County, Virginia.) 

Born at " Mount Vernon," July 22, 1858. 

Son of John Augustine and Eleanor Love Selden 
Washington: grandson of John Augustine and Jane 
Charlotte Blackburn Washington : great-grandson of 
Corbin and Hannah Lee Washington : great-great-grand- 



"jd SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

son of John Augustine and Hayuiah Bushrod Washing- 
ton. Col. John Augustine Washington (1736-1787), 
of "Nomoni," Westmoreland Co., Va., was County 
Lieutenant of Westmoreland, and Colonel of the County 
Militia, and was a Signer of the Westmoreland Associa- 
tion ; he was brother to George Washington and father 
of Judge Bushrod Washington (1762-1829), private in 
the Virginia Militia in active service. 

Grandson of Wilson Selden: great-grandson of Wil- 
son Gary Selden, M. D., Surgeon in the Virginia Line. 

Great-grandson of Richard Scott Blackburn, of the 
Revolutionary Army; Captain of Artillery, U. S. A., 1794. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Henry and 

Aylett Lee. Hon. Richard Henry Lee (1732), author 
of the Westmoreland Association, Member of the 
Continental Congress, and Signer of the Declaration of 
Independence, and who, on June 10, 1776, moved in 
Congress: — ''That these United States are, and of right 
ought to be, free ajid indepe?ident States ; that they are 
absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown; aiid 
that all political connection between the^n and Great 
Britain is, and ought to be, totally absolved.'' '' 

Great-great-great-grandson of Hon. Thomas Lee, 
President of the Council of Virginia, who had six sons 
in the Revolutionary struggle, viz: Philip Ludwell Lee, 
of "Swatford," Member of the House of Burgesses, and 
an active patriot at the commencement of the Revolu- 
tion, and the father-in-law of Col. Henry Lee, of " Lee's 
Legion:" Thomas Ludwell Lee (i73o-'77), of "Belle 
View," Member of the Convention of 1775 and of the 
Virginia Committee of Safety: Richard Henry Lee: 
Francis Lightfoot Lee (i734-'97), of Richmond Co., 
Va., Member of the Continental Congress, i775-'79, 
and Signer of the Declaration of Independence: William 
Lee (i737-'95) Alderman of London, and Sheriff of Mid- 
dlesex, England, 1 773-' 75, and U. S. Commissioner to 
Holland, Prussia, and Austria, during the war: Arthur 
Lee, M. D. (i74o-'92), of Middlesex Co., Va., Commis- 
sioner to France, Spain, and Prussia. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 77 

Col. Thornton Augustin Washington. 135 

Civil Engineer. Born in Jefferson Co., Va., January 22, 1826. 

Son of John Thornton Augustin and Elizabeth Conrad 
Bedhiger Washington : grandson of Thornton and Mil- 
dred Berry Washington. Thornton Washington (1760- 
'87), Ensign, 16th Regiment, Virginia Continental Line 
(Col. Thruston), with Washington in the New Jersey 
Campaign or at Valley Forge. 

Great-grandson of Samuel and Mildred Thornton 
Washington. Col. Samuel Washington (i734-'8i), 
patriot, Signer of the Westmoreland Articles of Asso- 
ciation, 1766, etc. He was brother of General Wash- 
ington. 

Grandson of Major Daniel Bedinger (1760-1818), of 
"Bedford," Jefferson Co., Va,, private in Stephenson's 
Company of Minutemen, who marched from Shep- 
herdstown to Boston, May 30, 1775 ; private in service 
at Brandy wine; captured and imprisoned in Phila- 
delphia; Lieutenant and Captain, Virginia Continental 
Line, in service until 1783 ; Navy Agent, Norfolk, 
1790.* 

[Grandnephew of George Michael Bedinger (1758- 
1830), member of Stephenson's Company; Captain and 
Indian spy at Boonsboro', Md. ; Adjutant of the Chilicothe 
Expedition, 1779; Major at the battle of Blue Licks, 
1782, and in Darke's Regiment, 1791, and commanded 
the Winchester Battalion of Sharpshooters, in the St. 
Clair Expedition. Representative in Congress from 
Kentucky.] 

[Grandnephew of Henry Bedinger (1753-1843), of 
" Protumna, "Jefferson Co., Va., member of Stephenson's 
Company, 1775 ; third Lieutenant, Stephenson's Regi- 
ment of Riflemen, 1776; captured at King's Bridge, 
and in the "Jersey" prison-ship, i777-'8i ; Captain, 
4th Regiment, Virginia Continental Line; Member of 
the Society of the Cincinnati.] 



*See Mrs. Lee's Sketch of the Bedinger Family (privately printed), for an ex- 
tended notice of the services of the Bedingers ; also papers in the S. A. R. 
archives. 



SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



John Elfreth Watkins. 31 

Engineer and Curator in U. S. National Museum. Born in Ben Lomond, 
Va., May 17, 1852. 

Son of Dr. Francis Benjamin and Mary Elfreth Wat- 
kins: grandson of Joseph and Ruth Hunt Watkins: 
great-grandson of Francis and Ag7ies Woodson Watkins. 
Francis Watkins, patriot, Deputy Clerk of Prince Ed- 
ward Co., Va., from 1767 to 1782, afterwards Clerk of 
the County, District, and Circuit Courts. 

Grandson of John and Mary Marshall Bryan Elfreth: 
great-grandson of Guy and Martha Matlack Bryan : great- 
grandson of Timothy and Elizabeth Claypole* Matlack. 
Timothy Matlack (1736-1829), of Pennsylvania, patriot 
and soldier, was Member of the Committee of Safety; 
Deputy in the State Conference of 1776; Delegate to 
the Continental Congress, i78q-'87 ; Secretary of the 
Council of State, 1781 ; and Colonel of Militia. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Watkins (1715-1783), 
of Virginia, patriot, who assisted, by influence and 
money, in raising the troop of cavalry of which his 
son, Henry Watkins, was Captain. 

[Great-greatnephew of Henry Watkins, Captain of 
the Prince Edward Troop of Horse, who rendered dis- 
tinguished service at Guilford Court House.] 

Andrew Baker Webb. 149 

Born in Appomattox Co., Va., November iS, 1850. 

Martin Van Buren Webb. 147 

Born in Appomattox Co., Va., June 2, 1846. 

Samuel Dillard Webb. 148 

Born in Appomattox Co., Va., June lo, 1849. 

Sons of Martin and Ann Hunt Dillard Webb: grand- 
sons of John and Nancy Turner Dillard: great-grand- 
sons of James and Jajie Starke Dillard. James Dillard 



♦Elizabeth Claypole, wife of Col. Timothy Matlack, was great-granddaughter of 
Mistress Elizabeth Claypole, the daughter of Oliver Cromwell. His descend- 
ant here mentioned, and those named on page 3, preceding, are therefore to be re- 
garded as Sons of the English Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. 




COL. TIMOHTY MATLACK 

At the age of ninety-three 
[|-R(iM rAIiN'I'INi; BY REMBrw\NnT PEAl.K, IN 
INIM'M'KNDKNCR HALL, I'MILAriF,LPnL\l 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 79 

(1755-1814), of Amherst Co., Va., was Lieutenant, 1777, 
in the loth Regiment, Virginia Continental Line, and 
served until the end of the war, and took part in the 
siege of Yorktown. 

AsHTON Stoodley Hall White. 74 

Librarian. Born in Portsmouth, N. H., September 20, 1S19. 

Son of William and Caroline Matilda Hall White: 
grandson of William and Matilda Little White : great- 
grandson of Abijah and Anna Little White. Abijah 
White (b. 1706), of Marshfield, Mass., who bore to 
Boston the famous "town-resolves" of Marshfield, and 
is immortalized in Trumbull's "McFingal."* 

Grandson of Elijah and Elizabeth Stoodley Hall. Eli- 
jah Hall (1743-1830), of Portsmouth, N. H., Lieutenant, 
Captain John Paul Jones, Commander of the American 
Continental ship of war " Ranger," and of the prize- 
ship "Drake," 1778. 

[Great-great-great-great-grandson of Peregrine White 
(1620-1706), the first child of European parents born 
in New England, and the stepson of Edward Wins- 
low, the first provincial Governor of New England.] 

Guy Fairfax Whiting, M. D. 143 

Born at " Wellbourne," Loudon Co., Va., June 14, 1S56. 

Son of George William Carlyle and Mary DeButts 

*" He was a representative of Marshfield, and employed to carry their famous town- 
resolves to Boston. He armed himself in a ridiculous military array, as another 
Hudibras, pretending he was afraid he should be robbed of the papers." 

" But now your triumphs all are o'er, 
For see, from Britain's angry shore, 
With mighty hosts of valour, join 
Her Howe, her Clinton, and Burgoyne. 
As comets through th' affrighted skies 
Pour baleful ruin, as they rise ; 
As /Etna, with infernal roar, 
In conflagration sweeps the shore ; 
Or as Abijah White, when sent 
Our Marshfield friends to represent, 
Himself while dread array involves, 
Commissions, pistols, swords, resolves. 
In awful pomp descending down. 
Bore terror on the factious town : 
Not with less glory and affright, 
Parade these Generals forth to fight." — McFingal. 



8o SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Dulany Whiting: grandson of Carlyle Fairfax and Sarah 
Little Whiting: great-grandson of Col. Charles Little, 
of " Denbigh," Fairfax Co., Va., a Member of the Virginia 
Society of the Cincinnati. 

Grandson of John Peyton and Mary A. DeButts Du- 
lany: great-grandson of Benjamin Tasker and Elizabeth 
French Dulany. Col. Benjamin Tasker Dulany, Volun- 
teer Aide to Washington at the siege of Yorktown. 

John Brewer Wight. 144 

Real Estate Broker. Born in Washington City, March 2, 1853. 

Son of Otis Caleb and Mary Isabella Biichanan Wight : 
grandson of Caleb and Mary Osgood Wight: great- 
grandson of Nahum and Abigail Bullard Wight. Nahum 
Wight, as a Lieutenant in the Massachusetts Militia, 
fought at Bunker Hill, where he received a wound, 
which forced him to leave the army in 1777, and entitled 
him later to a pension. In 1776 he was in service at 
Ticonderoga.* 

Grandson of Lloyd Archibald and Catharine I. Stuart 
Buchanan : great-grandson of Andrew and Susan Law- 
son Buchanan. Gen. Andrew Buchanan (i734-'86), of 
Maryland, patriot, was Member of the Baltimore Com- 
mittee of Observation and Brigadier General of Mary- 
land State Troops. 

Ernest Wilkinson. 151 

Lawyer. Born in Plaquemines Parish, La., March 8, 1859. 

Son of Dr. Joseph Biddle and Josephine Osborn Stark 
Wilkinson: grandson of Joseph Biddle and Catherine 



*Mr. Wight has in his possession a paper signed by Major General Phillips, and 
sent to Lieutenant Nahum Wight, while on duty at Ticonderoga : 

A Caution. — The boat from Ticondaroga, called the flag of truce, may be sent 
Back with the prisoners who came in it. It is unnecessary to say more to these 
people than to repeat that his excellency, the commander-in-chief, does not permit 
flaggs of truce, or any communication with the American rebels unless cumming 
to implore the King's mercy. The allowing these rebels in this boat to Return, 
and not made prisoners is an instance of the clemency of his majesty to these un- 
fortunate people. But it is recommended to them to be careful how they venture 
within the posts of the army, as they will be treated as spies. 

W. Phillips, Maj. GenH. 

Camp at St. Johns, Nov. 15, 1776. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 8l 

Andrew Wilkinson: great-grandson of James and Ann 
Biddle Wilkinson. Gen. James Wilkinson (i 757-1825), 
of Maryland, was Captain in Arnold's Canada Campaign ; 
Major, Colonel, and Adjutant General under Gates; 
Clothier General in the Western Department. He was 
subsequently Commander-in-Chief of the army. 

Great-grandson of Rev. Robert Anderson, Chaplain 
in the Continental Army. 

[Great-grandnephew of Owen Biddle (i737-'99), of 
Philadelphia, Member of the Committee of Safety, 
Council of Safety, and Board of War, and of Col. 
Clement Biddle (1740-1814), the " Quaker soldier."] 

Gen. Orlando Bolivar Willcox, U.S.A. isi 

Governor of the National Soldiers' Home. Born in Detroit, Mich., April i6, 
1823. 

Son of Charles and Ahnira i?(?^^ Willcox: grandson 
of John and Margaret Kelsey Willcox. Capt. John 
Willcox (1760-1811), of Killingworth, Conn., was a 
private in the Connecticut Militia, in service in 1779, 
1780 and 1782, and in 7th Conn. Line in 1780. 

[Grandnephew of Giles Willcox and Elijah Willcox, 
Minutemen, who served at the Lexington alarm, and 
later in the Massachusetts Militia ; and of Samuel Will- 
cox, a soldier captured at Bunker Hill, who was starved 
in the prison-ship, and died ten days after his exchange.] 

William Crawford Winlock. 44 

Curator of International Exchanges, Smithsonian Institution. Born in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., March 27, 1859. 

Son of Joseph and Isabella Za?z<? Winlock : grandson 
of Fielding and Nancy Peyton Winlock: great-grandson 
of Joseph and Effie Stephenson Winlock. Gen. Joseph 
Winlock (1758-1831), of Stafford Co., Va., Ensign and 
Lieutenant in the 7th and 9th Regiments, Virginia Con- 
tinental Line, who enlisted as a private in 1775, served 
seven years, fought at the battles of Brandywine and 
Monmouth, etc., and was with Washington at Valley 
Forge; subsequently Brigadier General of Kentucky 
Troops in the War of 18 12. 



82 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Grandson of George W. and Francis Toulson Adams 
Lane: great-grandson of Francis aud Anne Peake 
Adams. Francis Adams (1749- ), of Fairfax Co., 
Va., "served in the Revolutionary War as a private, 
persistently refusing promotion." 

Great-grandson of William and Mary Ross Peyton : 
great-grandson of Lawrence Ross, whose wife was the 
daughter of Col. William Oldham (i745-'9i), of Berke- 
ley Co., Va., Ensign and Captain, Virginia Continental 
Line, who commanded a Regiment of Kentucky Militia 
in 1 79 1, and was killed at St Clair's defeat, Nov. 4, 
1791. 

[Great-great-greatnephew of William Crawford 
(1732-1782), of Berkeley Co., Va., Colonel of the 5th 
Regiment, Virginia Continental Line, who commanded 
the expedition against Sandusky in 1782, and was cap- 
tured and burnt at the stake by the Indians at Battle 
Island.] 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Stephenson, Captain 
or Colonel of Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War, 
whose brother, Hugh Stephenson (died 1776), was Cap- 
tain of the company of Riflemen who marched from 
Shepherdstown, Va., to Boston, in 1775,* and later 
Colonel of a Battalion of Riflemen at the siege of 
Boston. 



♦"Stephenson's company of expert Virginia Riflemen [if not the first, one of the 
very first military organizations raised for the Continental Army] assembled at 
Morgan's Spring on the loth of July, 1775, and were the first men to cross the 
Potomac to join Washington in the North. I have often heard from the last 
survivor of that band of patriots the incidents of their first meeting and their 
march : how they made some six hundred miles in twenty days — thirty miles a 
day — and how, as they neared their point of destination, Washington, who hap- 
pened to be making a reconnoissance in the neighborhood, saw them approach- 
ing, and recognizing the linsey-woolsey hunting shirts of old Virginia, rode up 
to meet and greet them to the camp ; how, when he saw their captain, his old 
companion-in-arms, Stephenson, who stood by his' side at the Great Meadows, 
on Braddock's fatal field, and in many an Indian campaign — and who reported 
himself to his commander as 'from the right bank of the Potomac' — he 
sprang from his horse and clasped his old friend and companion-in-arms with 
both hands. He spoke no word of welcome ; but the eloquence of silence told 
what his tongue could not articulate. He moved along the ranks, shaking the 
hand of each, from man to man, and all the while — as my informer told me — the 
big tears were seen coursing down his manly cheeks." 
Speech of Hon. A. R. Botelcr, House of Representatives, ian. 25, i860. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 83 

Francis Joseph Woodman, M. D. 86 

U. S. Pension Bureau. Born in Great Falls, N. H., August 7, 1851. 

Son of Joseph and Sarah Le Gro Woodman: grand- 
son of Isaiah and Eunice Burrows Le Gro: great-grand- 
son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Wetherill Burrows. . 
Jonathan Burrows (1753-1817), of Berwick, N. H., 
was Orderly Sergeant in the ist Regiment, New Hamp- 
shire Continental Line, in service at Stillwater and in 
the Genesee campaign of 1779, and until 1783 — a pen- 
sioner. His brother, David Burrows, member of the 
same regiment, died in the service in 1783. 

Admiral John Lorimer Worden, U. S. N. 2 

Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, retired. Born in Sing Sing, Westchester Co., 
N. Y., March 12, 1818. 

Son of Ananias and Harriet Graham Worden: grand- 
son of Dr. Isaac Gilbert and ^7//<?j^a7Z/^£'r Graham. Dr. 
Isaac Gilbert Graham (1760- ), of Mount Pleasant, 
N. Y. , served as Surgeon's Mate in the Continental Army. 

Great-grandson of Dr. Andrew Graham (i 728-' 85), 
of Woodbury, Conn., patriot. Member of the Connec- 
ticut Committee of Safety; Regimental Surgeon of 
Connecticut Troops; captured at Battle of White Plains, 
and imprisoned until surrender of Cornwallis. 

Great-great-grandson of Rev. John Graham (1694- 
1774), of Woodbury, Conn., patriot, an early advocate 
of religious freedom in the colonies, and author of " A 
Ballad against the Church of England in Connecticut," 
and controversial tracts on the same subject. He was 
a native of Scotland and came to America in 17 18. 

Gen. Marcus Joseph Wright. 6 

Agent of the War Department for the Collection of Confederate Records. 
Born in Purdy, Tenn., June 5, 1831. 

[Son of Capt. Benjamin Wright, U. S. A. (1784-1860), 
of Georgia, Lieutenant in the 39th Infantry, promoted 
for gallantry at the Battle of the Horse Shoe, 18 14.] 

Grandson of John Wright (1759- ), a Captain of 
Georgia troops in the Revolutionary War. 



84 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Col. Levi Parker Wright. 150 

Register of Wills, District of Columbia. Born in Dunstable, Mass., Septem- 
ber 17, 1824. 

Son of George Parker and Elizabeth Taylor Wright : 
grandson of Levi Parker,* of Westford, Mass., Ensign 
and Lieutenant, ytii Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Con- 
tinental Line.! 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 



It was at first intended to publish this book in January, and the list of members 
up to December 25 was arranged and printed alphabetically, and since nearly one 
hundred additional members have been admitted, it has been decided to include 
their names also in the first book. All names will be found in the single alpha- 
betical list which precedes the Membership Roll. 

Rev. Daniel Dulany Addison. 289 

Clergyman. Born in Wheeling, W. Va., May ii, 1863. 

Son of Rev. Dr. Thomas Grafton, and Maria Eliason 
Addison Addison : grandson of Thomas Belt and Eliza 
Eliason Addison: great-grandson of John and Eleanor 
Belt Addison. John Addison was Lieutenant-Colonel, 
3d Battalion, Maryland Flying Camp, and later Colonel 
of Militia. 

Great-great-great-grandson of William Paca, Signer of 
the Declaration of Independence, etc. (See Record of 
Rev. Dr. T. G. Addison, below.) 

Rev. Thomas Grafton Addison, D.D. 301 

Rector of Trinity Church. Born in Washington Cily, Nov. 17, 1832. 

Son of Thomas Belt and Eliza Eliason Addison : 
grandson of Daniel Dulany and Louisa Catherine Gordon 
Addison: great-grandson of Thomas Grafton and Hen- 
rietta Paca Addison : great-great-grandson of William 
and Cheiv Paca. William Paca (i74o-'99), of 



* George P.^rker, the son of Levi Parker, took the name of his adopted father, 

Mr. Wright, 
t His commission, signed by Hancock, is in the possession of Col. Wright. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 85 

" Wyehall," Harford County, Md., patriot, was Mem- 
ber of the MaryLand Committee of Correspondence, 
Delegate to Congress, 1774-9, Signer of the Declara- 
tion of Independence, and the holder of other important 
offices, also member and Vice-President of the Maryland 
Society of the Cincinnati. 

Great-great-grandson of John and Eleanor Belt Addi- 
son. John Addison, of Prince George County, Md., 
was Lieutenant-Colonel, 3d Battalion, Maryland Flying 
Camp, 1776, and later Colonel of Militia. 

William Edwards Annin . 241 

Journalist. Born in Jersey City, Feb. 2, 1S57. 

Son of Joseph and Sarah Edwards Annin: grandson of 
John znd Mary Cooper Annin : great-grandson of William 
Annin (1713-90), patriot, Member of the Somerset 
County Committee of Correspondence. 

Grandson of Timothy and Sarah Haigh Edwards: 
great-grandson of Timothy and Rhoda Ogden Edwards. 
Tlmothy Edwards (1738-1812), of Berkshire County, 
Mass., patriot, was Member of the State and County 
Committees of Safety, and Commissary of Supplies for 
the Continental Army : his brother, Pierrepont Edwards 
(1750-1826), of New Haven, a private in the Governor's 
Foot-Guards, marched at the Lexington alarm, and was 
a member of the Old Congress, 1787-8. 

Great-great-grandson of Robert and Phebe Hetfield 
Ogden. Robert Ogden (1716-87), of Elizabethtown, 
N. J., patriot, was delegate to the Continental Congress 
1765, and Chairman of the Elizabethtown Committee of 
Safety, 1776. His son Matthias Ogden (1754-91) was 
Colonel ist Regiment New Jersey Continental Line, 
and Brigadier-General, 1783: his son Aaron Ogden 
(1756-1839), was Captain ist Regiment New Jersey 
Continental Line; Aide to Gen. Stirling; Captain of Light 
Infantry under Lafayette; and subsequently Commander- 
in-Chief of New Jersey Militia in the war of 1812. Col. 
Francis Barber and Col. Oliver Spencer were his sons- 
in-law. 



86 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Frank Lloyd Averill. 283 

Civil Engineer. Born in Decorah, Iowa, Nov. 15, 1861. 

Son of Henry K. and Almira E. Miller hvtxWV. grand- 
son of Henry K. and Elizabeth Piatt Averill: great- 
grandson of William Pitt and Ha^inah Kent Piatt : great- 
great-grandson of Zephaniah and Mary Van Wyck Piatt. 
Zephaniah Platt, Jr., (1735-1807), of Dutchess County, 
N. Y., patriot and soldier, was Member of the Provincial 
Congress, 1 775-'7; of the Council of Safety, 1777-8; and 
State Senator, 1 777-' 83; Member of the Continental Con- 
gress, i784-'6; and of the Constitutional Convention and 
Colonel of the Dutchess County Regiment of Associated 
Exempts, 1779, in service at Fishkill and Stony Point. 

Great-great-grandson of Zephaniah and Hannah 
Saxton Piatt. Zephaniah Platt, Sr., patriot, was con- 
fined in a prison-ship during the Revolution : his great- 
grandfather Epenetus Platt, of Long Island, was impris- 
oned for his political opinions in 1661. 

[Grandson of Henry K. Averill, Sr., who, with other 
members of a company of sharpshooters, was rewarded 
by a resolution of Congress for gallantry at the battle of 
Plattsburg, Sept. 11, 18 14.] 

Elroy McKendree Avery, Ph.D. 200 

(Cleveland, Ohio.) 

Born in Erie, Mich., July 14, 1844. 

Son of Caspar Hugh and Dorothy Putnam Avery: 
grandson of Amos Walker and Nancy McCutcheon 
Avery: Abraham and Mercy Packer Avery. Abraham 
Avery (1754-1843), of Stonington, Conn., was Corporal 
3d Company, 7th Connecticut Regiment, on duty in 
1775' on Long Island Sound, and at the siege of Boston 
in Sullivan's Brigade, and subsequently a prisoner of 
war, attacked by ship-fever, landed at Elizabethtown, 
N. J., and forced to beg his way back to Connecticut. 

Elbert Hall Baker. 256 

(Cleveland, Ohio.) 

Advertising Manager of " The Leader." Born in Norwalk, C, July 25, 1859. 

Son of Henry and Clara Maria Hall Baker: grandson 
of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah and Clarissa Ransom Hall: great- 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 87 



grandson of Major Ezekiel and Lucinda Fletcher Ransom : 
great-great-grandson of Samuel and Mehitable Hazeltine 
Fletcher. Gen. Samuel Fletcher (1744-1814), of Town- 
send, Vt., was Captain of Militia, in service at Bennington 
and Ticonderoga, and Major at the capture of Burgoyne ; 
Member of the Vermont Conventions of 1776 and 1777; 
Member of Assembly, 1778-9, and of the Council, 1780; 
Brigadier-General, Vermont Militia, 1781, and later Major- 
General. 

Frank Baker, M.D. 239 

Manager, National Zoological Park, and Professor of Anatomy, Georgetown 
University. Born in Pulaslci, N. Y., August 22, 1840. 

Son of Thomas Carswell, and Sibyl Sheldon Weed 
Baker: grandson of Thomas and Mary Carswell Baker. 
Thomas Baker (1751-1840), of Coleraine, Mass., Min- 
uteman, marched at the Lexington alarm, fought at 
Bunker Hill in Doolittle's Regiment, and took part in 
the siege of Boston. In 1776 he served as Sergeant in 
Woodbridge's Regiment, on garrison duty at Ticon- 
deroga. He received a pension from 1832 to 1840. 

William Dickson Baldwin. 267 

Patent Lawyer. Born in Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn., Sept. 30, 1834. 

Son of Henry and Mary Flora Dickson Baldwin : grand- 
son of William Dickson: great-grandson of William 
Dickson, M.D., of Dauphin County, N. C, who was 
Member of the Conventions of 1774, 1775 and 1776, one 
of the Signers of the oath of allegiance and abjuration 
(under act of Nov. 15, 1777), and also Surgeon and 
Officer of North Carolina Militia, and lost a leg in the 
service. 

[Grandnephew of Hon. Abraham Baldwin (1754- 
1807), of Connecticut and Georgia, Chaplain in the 
Continental Army, 1777-83; founder of the University 
of Georgia, 1784; Delegate to the Continental Congress, 
1785-9; Member of the Georgia Constitutional Con- 
vention, 1787; and Representative and Senator until his 
death.] 



88 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Commander Albert Smith Barker, U.S.N. 232 

Commander U. S. Navy. Born in Hanson, Mass., March 31, 1843. 

Son of Josiah and Eliza Gushing Barker: grandson of 
Isaac Bowen, and Elizabeth Torrey Barker. Isaac Bowhn 
Barker (1753-1845), of Pembroke and Hanson, Mass., 
served as a Minuteman in Thomas's Regiment, at the 
Lexington alarm, and later as Private in Bailey's Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Militia, at Roxbury, and Col. Henry 
Knox's Artillery at the siege of Boston, and in the Can- 
ada campaign. In 1777, lie served as Corporal in Capt. 
Andrew Sampson's Company, Massachusetts Militia, at 
"The Gurnets " in Plymouth Harbor. 

William Hamilton Bayly. 210 

Clerk, U. S. Pension Bureau. Born in Gettysburg, Pa., March 5, 1S50. 

Son of Joseph Yates and Harriet Hamilton Bayly: 
grandson of John Bayly: great-grandson of James Bayly 
(died 1793), of Donegal, Lancaster County, Pa., who was 
Member of the Patriot Council, of Lancaster County, 
1777; Justice of the Peace and of the Court of Common 
Pleas, being the officer before whom the citizens of 
Donegal and vicinity were required to take the oath 
of allegiance, and also Wagon-master for Lancaster 
County.* 

Grandson of Enoch :\nd Jajie R7issell Hamilton : great- 
grandson of William -And Magdaleiia Bittinger W^mWion. 
William Hamilton, of Gettysburg, Pa., was Orderly 
Sergeant and First Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, York County 
Militia^ captured at Fort Washington and long in prison. 

Great-great-grandson of Nicholas Bittinger, Captain, 
2d Battalion, York Militia, captured at Fort Washing- 
ton and long kept in prison. 

Marcus Benjamin, Ph.D. 258 

Editor. Born in San Francisco, Jan. 17, 1S57. 

Son of Edmund B. and Sarah Mitchell Benjamin: 
grandson of Orson and Mary Kibbe Benjamin : great- 
grandson of Major Joseph and Siisaimah Gaylord Ben- 



* Ellis and Evans: History of Lancaster County, Pa., 1SS3, pp. 763-4. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 89 

jamin : great-great-grandson of Nathan and Abigail 
Dibble Benjamin. Nathan Benjamin (1737-85), was a 
private, Ashley's Regiment, Berkshire (Mass.) Militia, 
called out in an alarm to Bennington, October, 1780. 

[Great-grandnephew of Col. Nathaniel Terry, of 
Enfield, soldier and patriot, Captain of Minutemen, 
1775, and in active service until close of war.] 

Pay Insp'r Luther Guiteau Billings, U.S.N. 226 

Pay Inspector, U. S. Navy. Born in Remsen, Oneida County, N. Y. 

Son of Andrew and Abbie Sheldon Billings: grandson 
of Daniel and Katharine Eldridge Billings. Daniel 
Billings (1750-1802), as Ensign, 6th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Continental Line, Jan. i, 1776, and afterwards as 
Lieutenant, was four years in active service. 

Henry Fitch Blount. 183 

Born in Richimond, N. Y., May i, 1829. 

Son of Walter* and Rebecca Ripley Blount : grandson 
of Walter and Deborah Het^rick Blount. Walter Blount 
(or Blunt) of Norwich, Conn., was Private in Col. Can- 
field's Regiment, Connecticut Militia. 

GxAudson oi ?\rnm diWd Hawiah Plumb K\^\ty. Pirum 
Ripley (1762-1844), enlisted in the Marine Service at the 
age of sixteen, and served as a powder-boy on the frigate 
" Oliver Cromwell," and subsequently on the "Confed- 
eracy." He also served with the army in New York. 

Great-grandson of Ambrose Blount and William Hunt, 
privates, Connecticut Militia. 

Frederick Ripley Blount. 207 

(Dallas, Texas). 

Born in Worthington, Ind., June i6, 1855. 

Son oi Henry Fitch Blount, No. 183. 

Judge Samuel Miller Breckinridge. 289 

(St. Louis, Missouri). 

Lawyer. Born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 3, 1828. 

Son of Rev. Dr. John and Margaret Miller Breckin- 
ridge, grandson of Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, D. D., 



* Walter Blount was a soldier in the War of 1812. 



90 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



and descendant of the several patriots and soldiers of the 
Breckinridge, Cabell, and Hopkins mentioned under the 
name of the Hon. W. C. P. Breckinridge, No. 7, p. 11. 

Grandson of Rev. Dr. Samuel and Sarah Sergeant 
Miller. Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D., of Princeton, N. J., 
patriot, at the outset of the Revolution in an eloquent 
sermon urged his congregation to join in the struggle 
for Independence. 

Great-grandson of Jonathan Dickinson and Margaret 
Spencer Sergeant. Hon. Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant 
(i746-'93), patriot, was Member of the Continental 
Congress, lyyS-'y, Attorney-General of Pennsylvania 
i777-'8o, and Member of the Continental Congress. 

Great-great-grandson of Elihu and Joanna Eattoyi 
Spencer. Rev. Elihu Spencer, D.D. (1721-84), of Tren- 
ton, N. J., patriot, was in 1775 employed by the Provin- 
cial Congress of North Carolina, to assist in allaying the 
conscientious scruples of the Scotch colonists, who were 
slow to relinquish their allegiance to the crown, and a 
reward was offered for his head by the British: his 
books and furniture were burned by the New Jersey 
tories, in 1777. His brother, Joseph Spencer (1714- 
'89), of Connecticut, was Brigadier-General in the Con- 
tinental Army. 

Hon. Alexander Thompson Britton. 182 

President of the American Security and Trust Company. Born in New York 
City, December 29, 1835. 

Son of Alexander and SusanToivers Britton: grandson 
of John and Susan Core?i Towers: great-grandson of 
Isaac and Ruth Coren. Isaac Coren, Jr, (1731-1802), of 
Philadelphia, was Captain of an Independent Company 
of Artillery, Pennsylvania Continental Line, from 1777 
to 1 781; previously Aide-de-Camp to General Braddock 
in the French and Indian Wars, with rank of Major, and 
Captain-Commandant of Fort Duquesne. 

Newton May Brooks. 202 

Superintendent of Foreign Mails, Post-Office Department. Born in Philadel- 
phia, Jan. 29, 1S43. 

Son of Captain Oliver, and Sarah Cornish Brooks : 
grandson of Samuel and Tirzah James ?>xooks. Deacon 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 91 



Samuel Brooks (1729-1807), of Exeter, N. H., was Del- 
egate to the Provincial Congress of 1775, Member of 
the Committee of Supplies, and Paymaster of Militia 
under the New Hampshire Committee of Safety. 

Alexander Brown. 246 

(Norwood, Nelson County, Va.) 

Historian. Born in Nelson County, Va., Sept. 5, 1843. 

Son of Robert Lawrence, and Sarah Cabell Callaway 
Brown: grandson of Dr. George and Mary Elisabeth 
Ca(5^// Callaway : great-grandson of James and Elizabeth 
^«r^ Callaway. Col. James Callaway, (1736-1809), of 
old Bedford County, Va., patriot and soldier, served in 
the French and Indian Wars, and was County Lieuten- 
ant, and Commandant of the Militia of Bedford County, 
and during the Revolution constantly engaged in all that 
pertained to that very important office in the border 
counties, where there were constant troubles with the 
tories and the Indians. He owned and operated iron 
works and lead mines, the first in Southwest Virginia, 
and supplied the patriot army. Col. John Callaway, 
distinguished at Guilford C. H.,was his brother, and Col. 
Richard Callaway, of Kentucky, patriot, his uncle. 

Great-great-grandson of Jeremiah and Mary Buford 
Early. Col. Jeremiah Early (1710-1779). of old Bedford 
County, Va., patriot, served in the French and Indian 
Wars, and was Colonel of Militia and Chairman of the 
Bedford County Committee in the early years of the 
Revolution. 

Grandson of Gen. Alexander Brown, of Perth, Scot- 
land, and Lucy Shands Rives, his wife. Great-grandson of 
Robert and Margaret Jordan Cabell Rives. Robert Rives 
(i 764-1 845), of Sussex County, Va., served at the sur- 
render of Yorktown as a private soldier. 

Great-grandson ofWilliam and Ann Carrington Cabell. 
Col. William Cabell, Jr. (1759-1822) was Major in 
Lieut. -Col. Pope's Battalion, serving under Lafayette in 
1781. (For collaterals see record of W. D. Cabell, 
No. 16). 



92 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Great-great-grandson of William and Margaret 
Jordan Cabell. Col. William Cabell, Sr. (lyso-'gS) 
was a member of all the Virginia Conventions, and of 
the Virginia Committee of Safety. 

Great-great-grandson of Paul and Margaret Read Car- 
ri7igton. Judge Paul Carrington (1733-18 1 8), of " Mul- 
berry Hill," Charlotte County, Va., patriot, a Member of 
all of the Virginia Revolutionary Conventions, and of the 
Virginia Committee of Safety, etc. (For collaterals see 
the records of Gen. E. C. Carrington, No. 208, and 
Peyton Rodes Carrington, No. 186). 

Great-great-great-grandson of George and Anne Mayo 
Carrington. Col. George Carrington (i7ii-'85), of 
'• Boston Hill," was Colonel for Cumberland County, and 
in 1775 Chairman of "a committee for encouraging the 
making of gunpowder," and was an influential patriot. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Samuel and Ruth Mer- 
edith Jordan. Col. Samuel Jordan (1707 .^-'89), of 
"Union Hill," Nelson County, Va., patriot, although a 
very old man, served as Colonel of Militia, as State 
Commissioner of the State's Foundry for Casting of 
Cannon. Col. John Jordan, patriot, was his son. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Clement and Mary Hill 
Read. Col. Clement Read (1707-1763), of Charlotte 
County, Va., patriot, though he died before the begin- 
ning of hostilities, took part in some of the preliminary 
movements, and several of his grandsons were soldiers 
of the Revolution. Col. Thomas Read, Col. Isaac Read 
and Major Edmund Read, patriots and soldiers, were his 
sons. 

Lieut. Bernard Abert Byrne, U.S.A. 285 

(Fort Thomas, Newport, Ky.) 

Lieutenant 6th Infantry, U. S. A. Born in Newport, Ky., Oct, 19, 1S52. 

Son of Major Bernard M. and Louisa Abert Byrne, and 
great-grandson of Col. Timothy Matlack, patriot and 
soldier. 

See records of Charles Abert, No. 34, and Sylvamis 
Thayer Abert, No. 35, p. 3. Lieut. Charles Byrne, 
No. 171, p. 14./. L. Watkins, No. 31, p. 78. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 93 

Albert Carhart. 255 

Merchant. Born in Bound Brook, N. J., Sept. lo, 1841. 

Son of John and Keziah Larison Carhart: grandson of 
Cornelius and Sarah Dunham Carhart : great-grandson 
of Cornelius and Willhnpia Colevian Carhart. Cornelius 
Carhart (1729-1810), of New Jersey, was Captain, 2d 
Regiment, Hunterdon Militia, and Major, 3d Regiment, 
Hunterdon Militia, April 20, 1778, and later. 

Gen. Edward Clement Carrington. 208 

Lawyer. Born in Halifax, Co., Va., May 22, 1825. 

Son of General Edward C. and Eliza Henry Preston 
Carrington. [Gen. Edward C. Carrington (1790-1855), 
of Virginia, served in the War of 1812.] 

Grandson of Paul and Mildred Howell Coles Carrington. 
Judge Paul Carrington, Jr. (1764-1816), as a youth, 
fought with the Virginia Militia at Guilford C. H. 

Great-grandson of Paul and Margaret Read Carring- 
ton. Judge Paul Carrington, Sr. (i 733-1818), of 
Charlotte County, Va., patriot, was Member of the 
Virginia Committee of Safety, and of all the Revolu- 
tionary Conventions. Three of his sons — George, 
Clement and Paul Carrington — were soldiers. 

Grandson of Gen. Francis and Sarah B2ichanan Camp- 
bell Preston : great-grandson of William and S^tsanna 
Smith Preston. Col. William Preston (i729-'83) was 
Member of the Committee of Safety, and Colonel of Vir- 
ginia Troops, wounded mortally at Guilford C. H. 

Great-grandson of William and Elizabeth He7iry 
Campbell. Gen. William Campbell (1745-81), Colonel 
and Brigadier-General of Virginia Riflemen, died in 
service in front of Yorktown.* 

[Great-grandnephew of Patrick Henry, patriot.] 

Peyton Rodes Carrington. i86 

(Richmond, Virginia.) 

Examiner of Titles. Born in Virginia, Jan. 9, 1834. 

Son of Col. Joseph Littleberry and Adaliiie Sidney Car- 
rington: grandson of William 'Andi Martha PovallOc\xx\x\g- 

* See page 12. 



94 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

ton: great-grandson of Joseph and Theodosia Mosby 
Carrington. Capt. Joseph Carrington organized, by his 
father's aid, and commanded a company of Minutemen 
from Cumberland County, in service in North Carolina 
and in Lower Virginia in 1775, and was Member of the 
Cumberland Committee of Safety. 

Great-great-grandson of Col. George Carrington, of 
" Boston Hill," Cumberland County, Va. ; Member of the 
House of Burgesses, and Chairman of the Cumberland 
Committee of Safety. Four of his eight sons were offi- 
cers in the Revolution, viz: — Capt. Joseph Carrington, 
Judge Paul Carrington (1733-1818) of "Mulberry 
Hill," Charlotte County, Va., Member of the Virginia 
Convention, and the State Committee of Safety, whose 
three sons were distinguished officers of the Continental 
Line; Col. Edward Carrington (1749-1810) and Major 
Mayo Carrington, the two last original members of the 
Society of the Cincinnati; and Col. William Cabell and 
Col. Nicholas Cabell were his sons-in-law. 

Great-grandson of Charles and Martha Goode Povall; 
great-great-grandson of Bennett and Martha Jefferson 
Goode, of " Fine Creek," Powhatan County, whose 
nephew was Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declara- 
tion of Independence. 

[Great-great-great-grandson of John Goode, of "Falls 
Plantation," killed in the early Indian Wars, son of John 
Goode, of "Whitby," a soldier under Bacon in the 
Rebellion of 1676.] 

HiRAM Guernsey Chandler. 224 

(Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, N. Y.) 

Real Estate Broker. Born in Brasher Falls, N. Y. Dec. 3, 1856. 

Son of David C. and Lydia Cha^npney Chandler: 
grandson of Samuel R. and Sally Guernsey Chandler: 
great-grandson of Stephen and Meribah Nye Chandler. 
Stephen Chandler (1753-1842), private, 2d Regiment 
Connecticut Continental Line, served at Bunker Hill, and 
in the siege of Boston — a pensioner, who died at Pots- 
dam, N. Y., 1842, aged eighty-eight. 




THOMAS JEFFERSON 



[from a bust, probably by CERRACHl, IN THE 
NATIONAL MUSEUM.] 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 95 



John Pascal Charlton. 235 

(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 

Manufacturing Stationer. Born in Philadelphia, Feb, 2. 1S33. 

Son of Frederick and Mary Pascal Charlton : grandson 
of John and Anii Polhenms Pascal: great-grandson of 
John and Susan Hart Polhemus. John Polhemus was 
Captain and Major ist Battalion, 2d Establishment, New 
Jersey Continental Line, in service i775-'8o. 

Great-great-grandson of John Hart (1708-80), of 
Hopewell, N. J.. P^itriot, Signer of the Declaration of 
Independence and Chairman of the New Jersey Council 
of Safety. 

CoM'R Colby Mitchel Chester, U.S.N. 218 

Commander, U. S. Navy. Born in New London, Conn., Feb. 29, 1844. 

Son of Melville and Frances Elizabeth Harris Chester: 
grandson of Elisha and Mary Walworth Chester : great- 
grandson of Thomas and Sarah Eldridge Chester. 
Thomas Chester (1721-1801) patriot, of Groton, Conn., 
was a Paymaster in the Continental Army. His son, 
Captain Thomas Chester, commanded the privateer 
sloop " Hancock," (10 guns, 80 men), of Connecticut, 
and the privateer " Two Brothers," of Massachusetts. 
Three of Thomas Chester's sons were armed by him for 
the defense of Fort Griswold against Arnold, 1781: of 
these, Daniel Chester was killed. Sergeant Eldridge 
Chester was mortally wounded, and Charles Chester 
made prisoner. Their names are inscribed on the monu- 
ment which marks the scene of this desperate fight. 

Grandson of Thomas and Lucy Rogers Harris : great- 
grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth Harris. 

Thomas Harris (1750.^-1804), of New London, Conn., 
was private, 3d Reg't, Connecticut Continental Line 
(Col. Israel Putnam), 1775; private, Beebe's Regiment, 
Connecticut Militia, 1776 ; Sergeant, 4th Regiment, 
Connecticut Line, 1777; Sergeant in Washington's 
Body-Guard, 1778-80. 



96 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Rev. John Chester, D.D. 231 

Pastor of the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church. Born in Hudson. N. Y.. 
April 23, 1S22. 

Son of Rev. William and Frances Afary White Chester: 
grandson of John and Elizabeth Huntington Chester. 
John Chester (1749-1809), of Wethersfield, Conn., was 
Member of the Wethersfield Committee of Correspond- 
ence, 1774; Captain of Minutemen who marched at the 
alarm of Lexington, and of the 9th Company, Spencer's 
Regiment, which he commanded at Bunker Hill; Major 
in Wolcott's State Regiment, at the siege of Boston, and 
Colonel, 6th Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, in the New 
York and New Jersey campaigns and Member of the 
Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati. 

Rev. Thomas Spencer Childs, D.D. 219 

Clergyman. Born in Springfield, IMass. 

Son of Joshua and Sttsan King Childs: grandson of 
Reuben Childs (1755-1840), of Deerfield, Mass., private 
in Captain Lock's Company of Minutemen, marched 
from DeeiTield to Cambridge at the Lexington alarm ; he 
then enlisted in Brewer's Regiment, and fought at Bunker 
Hill, where he was wounded. He also served at Ticon- 
deroga and Crown Point in Robinson's Regiment. 

Grandson of Lieut. Asaph King (1747-1832), of Enfield, 
Conn., who enlisted for the war in June, 1778, and was 
appointed Assistant-Paymaster, with rank of Lieutenant, 
and stationed at Wilbraham, and elsewhere. He served 
with Sullivan in the Rhode island Campaign of 1778, 
and in 1787 helped to suppress Shay's Rebellion. 

Rev. Samuel Davis Clayton. 254 

(Dayton, Ohio.) 

Minister of the Gospel. Born in Berkley County, Va., Sept. 26, 1823. 

Son of Henry and Elizabeth Fulton Clayton : grandson 
of Henry and Anna Skeer Clayton. Henry Clayton 
(1750-180^), a native of Ireland, served as private in 
1776 in Treat's Company, Bailey's Regiment, Pennsyl- 
vania Flying Camp, and later as ist Lieutenant, Swope's 
Flying Camp, Pennsylvania State Line at the Battle of 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 97 

Long Island; he was captured and kept in prison till 
December 8, 1780, when he was exchanged at Elizabeth- 
town, N. J. His widow received a pension up to 1857. 

William McKendree Clayton. 280 

Contractor. Born in Rushville, O., September 20, 1835. 

Son of Joseph and Louisa Showman Clayton : grand- 
son of Henry and Anna Skeer Clayton. Henry Clayton 
served as Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Flying Camp, 
as shown in the record of Rev. S. D. Clayton, above. 

Rev. John Newton Culbertson. 211 

Clergyman. Born in Franklin County, Pa., August 22, 1842. 

Son of John and Hannah McKitty Culbertson: grand- 
son of Robert 2X\di. Agnes Breckinridge Culbertson : great- 
grandson of Robert and Annie Dnncan Culbertson. 
Robert Culbertson (1755-1801), of Culbertson's Row, 
Pa., was Captain, 5th Battalion, Cumberland County 
Associated Volunteers, 1776, Lieutenant-Colonel, ist 
Battalion, Cumberland Associators, 1877-8; Wagon- 
master, and Commissary of Supplies for Cumberland 
Valley, 1778-81. 

Richard Dana. 274 

Expert Fish-Culturist, U. S. Fish Commission. Born at Camp Floyd, Utah, 
December 4, i860. 

Son of Gen. James Jackson and Thesta Dana Dana: 
grandson of Samuel Luther and Theodora Willard Dana : 
great-grandson of Luther and Liicy Giddings Dana. 
Luther Dana (1763-1832), of Groton, Mass., was 
Midshipman, U. S. N., from 1780 to 1783, serving in the 
"Hague" frigate under Capt. John Manley, U. S. N., 
and elsewhere, and received a pension, which was 
continued to his widow until her death in 1843,* His 
brother William Dana was Captain in Knox's Artillery. 

Hon. John Warwick Daniel, LL.D. 230 

(Lynchburg, Virginia.) 

U. S. Senator. Born in Lynchburg, Va., September 5, 1842. 

Son of Judge William and Sarah A. Warwick Daniel: 
grandson of Judge William and Mary Baldwin Daniel: 



* See Record of Gen. J. J. Dana, No. 60, p. 23. 



98 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

great-grandson of Cornelius and Mary Briscoe Daniel. 
Dr. Cornelius Baldwin, (b. 1751), of Elizabethtown, 
N. J., was commissioned Surgeon, 2nd Regiment 
Sussex, New Jersey, Militia, and Surgeon, Hunt's 
Battalion, Heard's Brigade, New Jersey Militia, 
July 8, 1776. 

Grandson of John M. and Caroline NorvellV\lAX^\c'W\ 
great-grandson of William and Ami Wyatt Norvell: 
great-great-grandson of Col. John and Willielmina 
Jordan Wyatt. John Wyatt served with the Virginia 
Militia and was present at Guilford C. H. 

[Great-grandnephew (step-relationship) of Col. 
William Cabell, of "Union Hill," and of Archibald 
Stuart (b. 1757), Aide to Gen. Greene at Guilford C. H.] 

Theodore Davenport. 206 

Disbursing Clerk and Superintendent, Post Office Department. Born in New 
York City, February 25, 1834. 

Son of Theodore and Harriet Grant Chesebrongh 
Davenport: grandson of John 'ax\^ Mary S. Wells Daven- 
port. Hon. John Davenport, M. C. (1752-1830), of 
Stamford, Conn., Major of Militia, was one of the 
Commission appointed by the Connecticut Assembly to 
rouse the people of the State to arms. 

Great-grandson of Abraham and Elizabeth Huntington 
Davenport. Col. Abraham Davenport* (1715-1789), of 
Stamford, Conn., as Member of the Legislature and 
Executive Committee of the State, and of the Com- 
mittee of Safety, was actively engaged in organizing 
the State Continental Line; his great-grandfather. Rev. 
John Davenport (1597-1670), one of the founders of 
New Haven, 1639, was one of the earliest advocates of 
religious liberty and representative government, and in 



* " In the old days (a custom laid aside 

With breeches and cocked hats) the people sent 
Their wisest men to make the public laws 
So, from an old brown homestead, where the sound 
Drinks the small tribute of the Mianas 
Waved over by the woods of Rippowams, 
And hallowed by pure lives and tranquil deaths, 
Stamford sent up to the councils of the State 
Wisdom and grace in Abraham Davenport" 

— Whittier: The Tent on the Beach. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 99 

1660, sheltered the Regicides for several weeks in his 
house. 

Theodore Davenport, Jr. 209 

Born in Stamford, Conn., May 7, 1S65. 

Son of Theodore and Georgia Elizabeth Williams Dav- 
enport, and great-great-grandson of Col, Abraham Dav- 
enport, as shown in the record of Theodore Davenport, 
Sr., preceding. 

Commander Francis William Dickins, U.S.N. 273 

Commander U. S. Navy. Born in Beekman, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1S44. 

Son of George and Eunice Pearce Dickins: grandson 
of William and Elizabeth Tanner Pearce : great-grandson 
of John and Eimice Briggs Pearce. John Pearce (1749- 
1829) of North Kingston, R. I., served as Ensign, ist 
Regiment, Rhode Island State Brigade under Continen- 
tal pay, and as ist Lieutenant, Stanton's Regiment, 
Rhode Island Militia. 

George Doolittle. 212 

Clerk, Third Auditor's Office, Treasury Department. Born in Utica, N. Y., 
December 26, 1830. 

Son of Jesse W. and Jerusha Clark Doolittle: grand- 
son of George and Grace Wetmore Doolittle. George 
Doolittle, of Middletown, Conn., was private, corporal 
and sergeant, 6th Regiment, Connecticut Line, from 
1778, to the close of the war and received a pension. 

Grandson of Jabez and Amy Elderkin Clark. Jabez 
Clark, of Lebanon, Conn., Ensign in Col. Ely's State 
Regiment, 1777, who served through the war and re- 
ceived a pension. 

Rev. James Owen Dorsey. 290 

Clergyman; and Ethnologist, Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. 
Born in Baltimore, Md., October 31, 1848. 

Son of Thomas Anderson and Maria Swectser Hance 
Dorsey: grandson of Nicholas Slade and Mary Anderson 
Dorsey: great-grandson of Elisha and Mary Slade Dor- 
sey. Elisha Dorsey (i752-'98) of Baltimore, patriot, 



lOO SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



was member of the Baltimore Committee of 1774, and 
of the Committee "to carry the Maryland Association 
to the people for signing," 1775 and 1776. Grandson 
of James and Ajui Swectser H-Ance.: great-grandson of 
Samuel and Sarah Allnut Hance. Samuel Hance (1730- 
1800), of Calvert County (near Prince Frederick) Mary- 
land, patriot, was member of the Calvert County Com- 
mittee of Observation, 1774 and 1775, and also of the 
Committee to License Suits, 1775. 

[Grandson of Nicholas Slade Dorsey (1782-1S67) a 
soldier of 1812, and of James Hance (1788-1865) private, 
Levering's Company, "Old Defenders" of Baltimore, 
who was in service in 18 12 and captured a British flag at 
North Point] 

[Great-great-great-grandnephew of Capt. Charles 
RiDGELY (1733-90), Chairman of the Baltimore County 
Committee of Observation, and great-grandnephew of 
Gov. Charles Ridgely (1760-1829) of Maryland, mem- 
ber of the Cominittee of Observation.] 

DeVIN FlNCKEL. 249 

Bank Clerk. Born in Washington City, October i8, 1S69. 

Son of Frank Hermann and Charlotte Brady Finckel: 
grandson of Jasper Erving and Margaret Morton Brady: 
great-grandson of John and Jane McCall Brady. John 
Brady (b. 1763), a boy of fifteen, fought by the side of 
his father and his brother Lieutenant Samuel Brady* 
at Brandywine, and was wounded. 

Great-great-grandson of John and Mary Quigley 
Brady. Captain John Brady (1733-79), of the 12th 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Continental Line, was wounded 
at Brandywine, at the head of his company, and was 
later engaged in frontier duty and v^as killed by the 
Indians, at Wolf Run, April 11, 1779. 

Charles Willis Fisher. 264 

TeacVier. Born in Hoboken, N. J., August 7, 1853. 

Son of Charles Willis and Margaretta Sargent Graham 
Fisher: grandson of Willis and Caroline Fab^banks 



'Samuel Brady was Lieutenant in Doyle's Independent Company, and was later 
Captain, 8th Pennsylvania Continental Line. In April, 1879, a monument to 
his memory was erected by the people of the West Branch Valley, at Muncy, Pa. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. lOi 

Fisher: great-grandson of Asa and Julitta Metcalf^-MK- 
banks. Asa Fairbanks, Jr. (1730-1809), of Franklin, 
Mass., was Captain of a company of Norfolk County 
Militia which marched on the alarm of Lexington, and 
constituted a part of Washington's first command at the 
siege of Boston, and later served in Rhode Island. 

Great-great-grandson of Hon. Jabez Fisher, Member 
of the Provincial Congress and of the Committee of 
Safety of Massachusetts, five of whose sons served in 
the army, three in the company of Capt. Fairbanks, 
above mentioned, and two in other companies, one of 
them having fought at Bunker Hill. 

Great-great-grandson of James Metcalf, Lieutenant- 
Colonel of Norfolk Militia, in service in the Rhode Island 
Campaign. 

Abial Abbott Forbush. 276 

Carpenter. Born in Hillsborough, N. H., November 13, 1839. 

Son of Ira and Hannah Brown Forbush : grandson of 
Simeon and Catherine Hosrner Forbush : great-grandson 
of David and Sarah Hayward Forbush. David 
Forbush, Jr. (b. 1739), of Acton, Mass., was Orderly 
Sergeant of the company of Minutemen which first 
opposed the British troops at the North Bridge in 
Concord. He was standing beside Captain Davis when 
the first shot was fired by the enemy, and was covered 
with Davis's blood when he fell. 

[Great-grandnephew of Abner Forbush, of Acton, 
Minuteman, who fought at the Bridge in Concord.] 

Great-grandson of Stephen and Sarah Davis Hosmer. 
Stephen Hosmer, of Acton, was one of the Minutemen 
at Concord Bridge. 

[Great-grandnephew of Abner Hosmer, of Acton, 
Minuteman, who fell at Concord Bridge, killed by the 
same volley which killed Captain Davis.] 

Great-grandson of Hzekiel and Mary Davis. 

Ezekiel Davis, of Acton, private of Minutemen, fought 
at Concord. 



I02 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

[Great-grnndnephew of Captain Isaac Davis, of the 
Acton Minutemen, killed by the first volley fired by 
the British at Concord Bridge.] 

Great-great-grandson of Josiah and Mary 

Hayward. Josiah Hayward, of Acton, patriot, was 
Delegate to the Provincial Congress, 1774 and 1775. 

[Great-great-grandnephew (?) of Capt. John Hayward 
(1740-1S25), of the Acton Minutemen, Vv'ho, after the 
death of Capt. Davis, led the company across Concord 
Bridge, in the pursuit toward Boston, and who a little 
later led his Acton men up the slope of Bunker Hill.] 

Grandson of Isaac and Sarah Aiken Brown. Isaac 
Brown, of Andover, N. H., was a private in Stickney's 
Regiment, Stark's Brigade, New Hampshire Militia. 

John Allen Graves. 198 

Teacher. Born in New York City, October 31, 1S27. 

Son of Capt. John Clark and Mary McLacJiland 
Graves: grandson of Durius and Zeruah Graves. 
DuRius (Darius) Graves, of Concord, N. H. (born 1762), 
was private in Bellows' New Hampshire Regiment, in 
service with the Northern Continental Army in 1777. 

Andrew Jordan Green. 272 

Examiner of Claims, Pension Bureau. Barn in the District of Acquia, 
Stafford County, Va., JVlarch i6, 1S63. 

Son of John and Mary Anne Jordan Green: grandson 
of William and Betsy Sidlivan Green : great-grandson 
of Jesse and Elizabeth G?.r Green. Jesse Green (1755- 
1S30), of Stafford County, Va., was a private in the 
Virginia State Cavalry. 

[William Green (1794-1S14), his son, of Stafford 
County, Va., was a private in the 45th Virginia Infantry 
in the War of 1812.] 

Maj. Chas. Ravenscroft Greenleaf, U.S.A. 214 

Major and Surgeon, U. S. Army. Born in Carlisle. Pa., January i, 1S3S. 

Son of Rev. Patrick Henry and Margaret Laughto^i 
JoJinson Greenleaf: grandson of the Hon. Simon 
and Hannah Kingman Greenleaf: great-grandson of 
Moses and Lydia Parsoyis Greenleaf. Moses Greenleaf, 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 103 

of Newbury, Mass., "entered the American Army at the 
age of nineteen as a Lieutenant, and served until nearly 
the close of the war." 

Great-great-grandson of the Hon. Jonathan Green- 
leaf (1723-1807), patriot, of Newbury, Mass., Member 
of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, and of the 
Committee of Safety and Correspondence for the Town 
of Newburyport. 

Charles Parke Grice. 244 

(Philadelphia, Pa.) 

Manufacturer. Born in Philadelphia, July 25, 1858. 

Francis Grice. 245 

(Philadelphia, Pa.) 

Manufacturer. Born in Camden, N. J., October i, 1855. 

Grandsons of Francis and Mary P. H. Elliott Grice : 
great-grandsons of Joseph and Mary Smith Grice. 
Joseph Grice, of Philadelphia, a boy of seventeen, in 
July, 1776, was private in a Light Infantry Company 
from Philadelphia, in service at Perth Amboy. 
August 16, 1776, he joined the First Company of Artillery 
of Philadelphia as gunner, at the same time working as 
ship-carpenter on the frigate "Effmgham." In 1777, he 
served with Moulden's Artillery throughout the Jersey 
Campaign, and later as a privateersman, as narrated in 
the record of Francis Elliott Grice, No. 161, p. 37. 

Great-great-grandsons of Francis and Mary Brocke^i- 
brough Grice. Francis Grice was in 1776 ist Lieutenant, 
ist Artillery Company of Philadelphia (Capt. Benjamin 
Loxley), and later (^artermaster with the rank of Major. 
He was confined in British prisons in New York, and 
Philadelphia, ijjj- 80. 

Eminel Potter Halstead. 225 

Lawyer. Born in Trenton, Oneida County, N. Y., August 13, 1833. 

Son of Thomas Jefferson and Mary Potter Halstead : 
grandson of Joseph and Miriam Preston Halstead. 
Joseph Halstead (1760-1845), private in the Connecticut 
Continental Line, i777-'8o, was in service at Trenton, 
Monmouth, Valley Forge and West Point, and a 
pensioner in 18 18, residing in New York. 



I04 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Russell Benjamin Harrison. 220 

(Helena, Montana.) 

Journalist. Born in Oxford, Ohio, August 12, 1854. 

Son of President Benjamin and Caroline Scott Harrison : 
grandson of Hon. John Scott and Elizabeth Irwin 
Harrison : great-grandson of President William Henry 
and Anna Synnncs Harrison : * great-great-grandson of 
Benjamin and Elizabeth Bassett Harrison. Hon. Benja- 
min Harrison (i726-'9i), of "Berkeley," Charles City 
County, Va., patriot, was Member and Speaker, Virginia 
House of Burgesses; Signer of the Williamsburg 
Resolutions of 1774; Member of the Virginia Conven- 
tions; Member of the Continental Congress and 
Chairman of the Continental Board of War, which 
directed and controlled the War of the Revolution; 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Governor 
of Virginia, 1782. Gen. Charles Harrison, of the 
Virginia Line (d. 1796), Nathaniel Harrison, patriot, 
of Prince George County, Speaker of the Virginia 
Senate; Carter Henry Harrison, of " Clifton," patriot. 
Member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety, 1774-5, 
were his brothers and Elizabeth Randolph wife of Hon. 
Peyton Randolph (i72i-'75), first President of the 
Continental Congress was his sister. Deputy-Pay- 
master-General Benjamin Harrison (d. 1799), was his 
son, and Capt. Anthony Singleton (i75o-'95), of the 
Continental Artillery his son-in-law. 

Great-great-grandson of John Cleves and Anna Tiithill 
Symmes. Hon. John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814), was 
Colonel, 3rd Battalion, Sussex (N. J.) Militia, in service 
at Saratoga, and Member of the Continental Congress 
from Delaware; his son John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829) 
was Captain, ist Inflintry, U.S.A., in the War of 1812. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Governor William 
Livingston, LL. D. (i723-'9o), of Elizabethtown, Deputy 
in the ist-3d Continental Congresses, Brigadier-General 



*Gen. William Henry Harrison commanded the Army of the Northwest Frontier in 
the War of 1812. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 105 

and Commander-in-Chief of the New Jersey Militia, and 
Governor 1776-90. 

Grandson of Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon and Mary 
Neal Scott: great-grandson of John and Agnes Mc- 
Elroy Scott. Major John Scott was Commissary of 
Pennsylvania Troops, and his brothers Dr. Moses, 
William and John Scott were also officers of the 
Revolution. 

John Beers Hawes. 217 

(Reichenberg, Bohemia.) 

U. S. Consul at Reichenberg. Born in Danby, N. Y., May 31, 1856. 

Son of John Hart and Adelaide Beers W-Assifi'. grand- 
son of Eli and Electa Bush Beers: great-grandson of 
Richard and Ruah Piatt Bush : great-great-grandson of 
John and Sarah P. Richards Bush. John Bush (1736- 
1819), was Ensign, June 24, 1776, 6th Battalion, Penn- 
sylvania Continental Line; Lieutenant, 7th Regiment, 
Pennsylvania Line; Captain-Lieutenant, April 17, 1780; 
Captain, December 11, 1781, 3d Pennsylvania Line. 
"He fought seven years for his country in the Revo- 
lution, having already served through the French and 
Indian Wars." 

Very Rev. Augustine Francis Hewit, D.D. 257 

Superior-General of the Congregation of Missionary Priests of St. Paul the 
Apostle. (College of St. Thomas of Aquin, Catholic University of 
America). Born in Fairfield, Conn., November 27, 1S20. 

Son of Nathaniel and Rebecca Woolsey Hillhouse Hewit : 
grandson of James and Rebecca Woolsey Hillhouse. 
James Hillhouse (1754-1832), of New Haven, was 
Captain, Governor's Foot-Guards, and Adjutant to the 
Governor, in service in the defense of New Haven, and 
Member of Assembly, i78o-'83. 

Great-grandson of William Hillhouse, of New 
London, Member of Assembly, Major, 2d Regiment, 
Connecticut Cavalry, and Member of the Continental 
Congress, i783-'86. 



Io6 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Gen. Charles William Field. 279 

War Records Office. Born in Woodford County, Ky., April 6, 1S2S. 

Son of Willis and Isabella M. Duck Field : grandson 
of Ezekiel Henry and Elizabeth Field Field. Ezekiel 
Henry Field, of Culpeper County, Va. (when a youth 
four years a captive among the Indians), a member of 
the garrison at Lexington station, was killed at the 
battle of Blue Licks, Ky., August 19, 1782. 

Great-grandson of John and Clark Field. 

Col. John Field, an officer of Virginia Provincials, 
fought at Braddock's Defeat, 1755, and later fell at the 
head of his Regiment at the battle of Point Pleasant, 
October 10, 1774.* 

[Great-grandnephew of Gen. George Rogers Clark 
(1752-1818) "the Hannibal of the West."] 

William Edward Horton. 216 

Assistant Topograplier, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Washington City, 
June 28, 1S6S. 

Son of Major William Edward Mid Josephine J. Clarke 
Horton: grandson of Joseph and Julia A jni Eddy Clarke: 
great-grandson of William and Sally Hamilton Clarke: 
great-great-grandson of Thomas and Sarah Case C\-AxVt. 

Thomas Clarke (1743-1813), of North Kingston. R. I., 
served as Captain, ist Company, North Kingston Militia, 
1775; Major, 2d Regiment, Kingston County (R. I.) 
Militia, 1777, in service under Gen. Spencer, and also 
in 1778 in Sullivan's Expedition, in battle at Quaker Hill. 

Col. Addison Augustus Hosmer. 302 

Born in West Boylston, Mass., February 28, 1S33. 

Son of Ebenezer and Mary Cheney Hosmer: grandson 
of Daniel ixxdSai^ah Mason Hosmer: great-grandson of 
Daniel and Hannah Baker Hosmer. Daniel Hosmer, of 
Concord, Mass., served as Ensign in a Concord Company 
of Militia, organized April 9, 1776, and was in active 
service about Hull. Lieut. Joseph Hosmer, Adjutant of 



■ See footnote, page 53. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 107 

Minutemen in service in the Concord Fight, and Abner 
HosMER, l^illed in the Concord Fight, were his brothers, 
and the Hon. Titus Hosmer, Member of the Continental 
Congress, his cousin in the third degree. 

Capt. Alfred Epher Hunt. 185 

(Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.) 

Metallurgical and Civil Engineer. Born in Douglass, Mass., March 31, 1855. 

Son of Leander B. and Mary Hanchett Hunt : grandson 
of Oliver and Phebe Balcom Hunt: great-grandson of 
David B. and Ann Hayes Hunt. Major David B. Hunt 
(1735-91) served as private, 2d Company, 2d Regiment, 
New York Line, May 5, 1778, to February 17, 1779, 
and as (^lartermaster, 3d Regiment, New York Line, 
July I, 1780, to the end of the war. 

Stephen Alonzo Jackson. 195 

(Abingdon, Virginia.) 

Born in Glenville, Va., September 22, 1851. 

Son of the Hon. Winter and Mary K. Fell Jackson: 
grandson of Stephen Pomeroy and Hannah Bailey 
Jackson: great-grandson of Stephen and Mary Pomeroy 
Jackson. Stephen Jackson ([764-1846), private, Virginia 
Line, was wounded at Yorktown at the age of seventeen ; 
he was often employed as a scout and spy. 

Great-great-grandson of Edward and Martha Miller 
Jackson. Edward Jackson, (born in England, 1729), 
was a private in the Virginia Line, and crossed the 
Delaware with Washington : his sons Samuel Jackson 
and William Jackson were also in the service. 

Jerome Fletcher Johnson. 253 

Insurance Agent. Born in Royal Oak, Mich., Decembers, 1840. 

Son of James Gibson and Susan Boiven Johnson: 
grandson of Jeremiah and Tho7nazin Blanchard]o\\x\^ox\\ 
Jeremiah Johnson (1764-1847) was private, ist Regiment, 
New Hampshire Line, i78i-'83, and fought in the War 
of 1812 at Lundv's Lane. 



Io8 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Grandson of Daniel and Mehitable Packard Bowen. 
Daniel Bowen, private, 2d Regiment, Connecticut 
Continental Line, with two brothers, was at Bunker Hill, 

(See also records of Ar?iold B urges Johnson, No. 97, 
p. 45, -Axxd. J a77ies Bowen Johnson, No. 108, p. 46). 

WiLLARD Drake Johnson. 268 

Topographer, U. S. Geological Survey. Born May 3, 1S59. 

Son of Arnold Burges and Harriet Melvina Barrows 
Johnson : grandson of Lorenzo Dow and Mary Bnrges 
Johnson : great-grandson of Jeremiah Johnson, private, 
ist New Hampshire Regiment. (See records of A. B. 
Johnson and his brothers. No. 97-100, p. 45, also of 
James Bowen Joh7ison, No. 108, and Jerome Fletcher 
Johnson, No. 253). 

Grandson of Ebenezer and Mary Freeman Barrows: 
great-grandson of Thomas Barrows (b. 1760), of Ware- 
ham, Mass., private in Jacob's and Nelson's Regiments, 
Massachusetts Militia, in 17S0 and 1781. 

Hon. Thomas Goode Jones. 193 

(Montgomery, Alabama,) 

Governor of Alabama. Born November 26, 1S46. 

Son of Col. Samuel Goode and Martha W. Goode 
Jones: grandson of Dr. Thomas W. and Alary Arjnistead 
Goode Jones: great-grandson of Samuel and Mary 
Armistead Burwell Goode. Hon. Samuel Goode, M. C. 
(1756-1822), of "Whitby." Mecklenburg County, Va., 
was Lieutenant of the Chesterfield Troop of Horse, 1776 
(his brother Robert Goode, of "Whitby," Chesterfield 
County, was Captain), and Member of the House of 
Burgesses, i779-'83. He was subsequently County- 
Lieutenant and Colonel of Militia for Mecklenburg, 

[Great-great-great-grandson of Governor Alexander 
Spotswood (1676-1740), who brought the right oi habeas 
corpus to Virginia, and who organized popular education, 
and iron-manuf^icture in the South. His grandsons 
Alexander and John Spotswood were officers in the 
Continental Line.] 




COL. SAMUEL GOODE, M.C, 

OF VIRGINIA. 
FroiT\ Miqiature by Peale. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 1 09 

Rear-Admiral James Edward Jouett, U.S.N. 191 

Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy. Born in Lafayette County, Ky., Feb. 28, 1828. 

Son of Matthew Harris and Margaret H. Allen Jouett. 
[Capt. Matthew Harris Jouett (1788-1827), served 
with the 28th Infantry in the Northwestern Campaign in 
the War of 1812.] 

Grandson of John and Sally Robards Jouett. Capt. 
John Jouett (1754-1822) was a scout and partisan in 
the Virginia service. When twenty-three years of age. 
he followed Tarleton and his Legion in their raid into 
Piedmont Virginia, and learning of their intention to 
surprise the Governor and Assembly at Charlottesville, 
he rode alone in front of the column, and after a des- 
perate encounter with the troops, escaped and reached 
the temporary Capitol two hours in advance of his pur- 
suers, and in time to enable Jefferson and the Legisla- 
ture to escape with the archives and public stores. 
He was rewarded by the thanks of Congress and the 
State.* Captain Matthew Jouett, his brother, fell at 
Brandywine. He was Clerk, May 23, 1775, of the 
first legislative assembly which met west of the 
Alleghanies, the " Boonesborough Parliament," in the 
Colony of Transylvania, f 

Samuel Prescott Keller. 201 

Clerk, U. S. Pension Office. Born in Baltimore, November 12, 1840. 

Son of Samuel Lafayette and Harriet Keller Keller: 
grandson of Jacob and Barbara Ehrhart Keller: Jacob 
Keller (1760-1845), of Lancaster County, Pa., was 
private, Pennsylvania Line, under Capt. Martin Earhart 
and Major Hare, and fought at Brandywine, and also 



*The following resolution was passed June 12, 1781, by the Virginia House of 
Delegates : 
Resolved, That the Executive be desired to present to Capt. John Jouett an elegant 
sword and pair of pistols, as a memorial of the high sense which this General 
Assembly entertain of his activity and enterprise in watching the motions of 
the enemy's cavalry in their late incursion to Charlottesville, and conveying to 
the Assembly timely information of their approach whereby the designs of the 
enemy were frustrated and many valuable stores preserved. 

t See Shaler's " Kentucky," pp. 68-70. 



no SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

under Lafayette: as a boy he served under Montgomery 
in Canada. 

Grandson (maternal-lines) of Jacob Keller (1760- 
1840), of Lancaster County, Pa., private, Pennsylvania 
Line, in Riegart's Regiment, and others, who fought at 
Trenton, Princeton, and under Wayne at Stony Point. 

David Kimball. 187 

Messenger, U. S. Senate. Born in Windham, Vt., July 22, 1827. 

Son of Col. Levi and Margaret Jones Kimball: grand- 
son of Moses and Mary Jo7ies Kimball. Moses Kim- 
ball, Jr. (1752-1829), of Amherst, N. H., signed the 
Amherst "Petition against the King" in 1776, as did also 
his father Moses Kimball, Sr. Moses Kimball, Jr., as a 
private of Militia, fought at Bunker Hill. His brother, 
Eli Kimball (1759-83), fought at Bennington in Brad- 
ford's Company of Col. Nichols' Regiment, which 
commenced the attack on the British troops. 

Rear-Admiral Lewis Ashfield Kimberly. 288 

Rear-Admiral U. S. Navy, retired. Born in Troy, N. Y., April 2, 1830. 

Son of Edmund Stoughton and Maria Theresa Ellis 
Kimberly: grandson of John French and Maria Willcocks 
Ellis: great-grandson of William and Catharine Ashfield 
Willcocks. Major William Willcocks (born 1750) was 
Aide to General Stirling at Long Island, Brandywine, 
Monmouth and Princeton. 

George William Knox. 277 

Proprietor of Knox's Express. Born in Belgrade, Me., July 4, 1829. 

Son of Jesse and Sarah M. Sherburne Knox: grandson 
of Eleazer and Tamson Tibbetts Knox. [Eleazer Knox 
was a soldier in the War of 1812, in the Lake Cham- 
plain Campaign.] Great-grandson of Joseph Nock, 
private in the New Hampshire Militia in service at 
Kittery Point, 1775. 

Grandson of John and Rebecca Sheppard Sherburne: 
great-grandson of Job and Hannah Elliot Sherburne. 
Job Sherburne, of Epping, N. H., served out four enlist- 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. ill 

merits, in the regiments commanded respectively by 
Colonels Stark, Oilman, Wyman and Peabody. He 
was grandson of Lieut. John Sherburne, killed in 
1691, commanding a company in the Indian War. 

William Salsbury Knox. 278 

Secretary. Born in Tinmouth, Vt., November i6, 1S62. 

Son of George W. Knox, No. 277, and great-great- 
grandson of Job Sherburne, private, ist Regiment, New 
Hampshire Continental Line. 

Hon. Edward Samuel Lacey. 263 

Comptroller of the Currency. Born in Clnili, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1835. 

Son of Edward DeWitt, and Cornelia Pixley Lacey : 
grandson of Samuel and Ruth Sigoumey Lacey. 

Great-grandson of Ebenezer and Mary Hurd Lacey. 
Ebenezer Lacey, of Woodbury, Conn,, served as a pri- 
vate in a company enlisted in Woodbury, in the New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia Campaigns. 

Great-grandson of Anthony and Rtdh Chase Sigour- 
ney. Anthony Sigourney (1757-1825), of Oxford, Mass., 
served as a private in a company of Oxford Militia, com- 
manded by his brother, Capt. Andrew Sigourney, and 
was wounded in the battle of New York, Sept. 16, 1776. 

Daniel Smith Lamb, M.D. 177 

Physician. Born in Philadelphia, May 20, 1843. 

Son of Jacob Matlock and Delilah Meek Rose Lamb: 
grandson of William and Priscilla Ellis Matlock Lamb : 
great-grandson of Jacob and Sibylla Ellis Matlock. 
Jacob Matlock (i 762-1 857), of Waterford, N. J., at the 
age of fifteen enlisted as private in the Gloucester Militia, 
2d Battalion, later in the ist Battalion, Gloucester 
Militia, and in the New Jersey State Troops.* 

Philip Fillmore Larner. 262 

Lawyer. Born in Washington City, August 28, 1852. 

Son of Noble D. and Ann Margaret Keller Larner: 
grandson of Michael and Christiana Gideon Larner: 



*A full account in MS. of his service is in the archives of the Society. 



112 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



great-grandson of Jacob and Mary Coons Gideon : great- 
great-grandson of Jacob and Rebecca Sales Gideon. 
Jacob Gideon (b. 1756) enlisted at Valley Forge, Pa., in 
1777, in Rudolph's Troop of Lee's Legion, in which he 
served until 1781, and from 1781-1783 as trumpeter in 
Van Hare's Company of Washington Guards, in service 
at Guilford, Eutaw Springs, the Cowpens and Yorktown. 

Augustus Perry Leidy. 222 

Merchant. Born in Philadelphia, March 5, 1S48. 

Son of George Craig and Mary Jenkins Leidy: grand- 
son of George and Hester Hebron Leidy: great-grandson 
of Jacob and Catharme Comfort Leidy. Jacob Leidy 
(1755-1811), was Ensign, ijjj-S, and First Lieutenant, 
5th Battalion, Pennsylvania Line, (Col. Hiester), in serv- 
ice in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Campaigns. 

Col. Charles McKnight Leoser. 190 

(34 Beaver St., New York City.) 

Born in Reading, Pa., August 4, 1839. 

Son of Thomas Smith and Mary H. Rheeyn Leoser: 
grandson of Dr. Jacob and Sarah Bull Smith Leoser: 
great-grandson of John ^Vid Elizabeth Bull Smlih: great- 
great-grandson of Thomas and Aim Hunter Bull. 
Thomas Bull (1744-1837), of Chester County, Pa., was 
in 1776 appointed one of the field officers of the Chester 
Flying Camp, and later Lieutenant-Colonel, ist Battalion, 
Chester Militia. He was captured at New York, and 
confined in the "Jersey" prison-ship for twenty-one 
months. 

Francis Ellington Leupp. 178 

Journalist. Born in New York City, January 2, 1S49. 

Son of John P. and Emeline M. Davishoo^: grandson 
of Henry and Loise Bushnell Loop: great-grandson of 
Peter and Ann Bailey Loop. Peter Loop (or Liipp) 
( 1 723-1 824), a native of Germany, was Lieutenant, 
Col. Willett's Regiment, New York State Levies, 1782, 
and was in active service earlier in the war. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. II3 

Hon. George Bailey Loring. 303 

Agriculturist. Born in North Andover, Mass., November S, 1817. 

Son of Bailey and Sally Pickman Osgood Loring : grand- 
son of Isaac and Rebecca Pickmaii Osgood. Isaac Osgood, 
patriot, was, with his brother Samuel Osgood, a mem- 
ber of the Committee of Circumspection, chosen by the 
town of Andover, Mass., to carry out the recommenda- 
tion of the Continental Congress and other Revo- 
lutionary Committees and in 1783 clerk of the courts 
in Salem. 

[Grandnephew of Samuel Osgood, patriot. Captain of 
Minutemen, Major and Colonel of Massachusetts Militia, 
and Member of the Provincial and of the Continental 
Congress.] 

Captain Thomas Mower McDougall, U.S.A. 269 

Captain U. S. Army, retired. Born in Prairie du Chien, Wis., May 21, 1S45. 

Son of Charles and Maria Hanson McDougall: grand- 
son of John and Margaret Stockton McDougall: great- 
grandson of David Stockton: great-great-grandson of 
Thomas Stockton : great-great-great-grandson of Robert 
and Mary McKemie Stockton. Robert Stockton 
(1737-1821), of Somerset County, New Jersey, served as 
Major and Quartermaster, Continental Army, in service 
at Princeton and Monmouth. His brother Richard 
Stockton (1730-1781), patriot, of Princeton, N. J., was 
Member of the Continental Congress, and Signer of the 
Declaration of Independence. 

William Osborne McDowell. 213 

(Newark, New Jersey.) 

Born in Somerset County, N. J., April lo, 1848. Member of the New Jersey 
Society. 

Son of Col. Augustus William and Anna M. Osborne 
McDowell: grandson of Rev. Dr. William Anderson and 
Jane Hayes Kollock McDowell: great-grandson of 
Matthew and Martha A7iderson McDowell. Matthew 
McDowell served as private in a company of Minute- 
men in Somerset County, N. J. 



114 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Grandson of Rev. Enos Ayers and Abigail Davis 
Osborne: great-grandson of Henry Osborne, and great- 
great-grandson of Elias Osborne, both privates in the 
Essex County, New Jersey Militia. 

Great-grandson of Deacon Joseph and Anna Crane 
Davis. Joseph Davis (1754-1827), of Bloomfield, N. J., 
was private in the Essex Militia, and a prisoner in the 
Old Sugar House in New York City. 

Great-grandson of Shepard and Stisayi ArnettY^o\[ozV.. 
Shepard Kollock (1750-1839), patriot and soldier, was 
Lieutenant and Brevet-Captain, 2d Regiment Artillery, 
Continental Line, lyjG-'S, and editor of the "New 
Jersey Journal, " a patriotic organ established at the seat 
of war, Chatham, N. J., in 1779, at the request of 
Washington, and a reward was offered for his capture or 
death. He was one of the founders of the Society of the 
Cincinnati. 

Great-great-grandson of Isaac and Hannah White 
Arnett. Hannah Arnett, patriot, of Elizabethtown, in- 
fluenced materially the attitude of New Jersey during the 
Revolution. Her father Captain White is believed to 
have commanded a New Jersey privateer. 

Hon. John V. McDuffie, M.C. 270 

(Hayneville, Ala.) 

Planter. Born in Addison, N. Y., May i6, 1841. 

Son of Isaac and Cintha Baker McDuffie: grandson of 
Samuel and Ester Fields Baker. Samuel Baker (1761 
-1854), private in the Dutchess County, New York 
Militia (i78i-'83), served at Stony Point* and was a 
sergeant of New York Militia in the War of 18 12. Ester 
Fields, his wife, was the daughter of a Revolutionary 
soldier, killed at the battle of White Plains. 

[Grandnephew of Thomas McDuffie, captured, killed 
and quartered by the Tories and their Indian allies. J 



* His son Isaac McDuffie is living, 1S91, at Point Pleasant, Iowa, aged eighty- 
eight years. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 115 

Henry Benjamin McKean. 236 

Clerk, U. S. Pension Bureau. Born in Columbia, Pa., Sept. 13, 1831. 

Son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Matthewson McKean : 
grandson of Elisha and Elizabeth Satterlee Matthewson. 
Elisha Matthewson (1757-1805), of Wyoming, six and 
one-iialf years in the Army as private in Captain Ran- 
som's Company, fought at Monmouth and Mud Fort, 
and Later as Corporal, ist Regiment, Connecticut Con- 
tinental Line and was one of the volunteers who carried 
the British redoubt at Yorktown, October 14, 1781. His 
brother Constant Matthewson, private in Ransom's 
Company, was killed by a cannon ball at Fort Mifflin, 
November 11, 1777. 

Cyrus Culbertson Maclay. * 194 

(Tipton, Missouri.) 

Banker. Born in Westmoreland County, Pa., September 7, 1842. • 

Son of John and Anna Maria Gleiin Maclay: grand- 
son of Judge William and Margaret Ciclbertson Maclay: 
great-grandson of John 2ind Jane Dickson }Aa.c\Ay . Hon. 
John Maclay (1734-1804), of Cumberland County, Pa., 
was a Delegate to the Provincial Congress in Carpenter's 
Hall, June, 1776, and voted for Independence. 

[Great-grandnephew of Hon. William Maclay (1737- 
1804), of Northumberland County, Pa., U. S. Senator 
1789-91; Lieutenant in the Old French War; Assistant 
Commissary of Purchases in the Revolution, who took 
part with the Pennsylvania Militia in the battles of Tren- 
ton and Princeton — also of Hon. Samuel Maclay (1741- 
181 1), of Northumberland County, Pa., Lieutenant- 
Colonel of Militia and later U. S. Senator. 

Aaron Buzzell Magoun. 223 

Schoolmaster. Born in Strafford, N. H., September 15, 1808. 

Son of Josiah and Anna Sleeper Magoun. Josiah 
Magoun, of East Kingston, N. H., enlisted Decem- 
ber 7, 1776, and was mustered out July 2, 1779. He 
was private in the ist Regiment, New Hampshire Line, 



Il6 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

and also for six months in a Rhode Island Regiment. 
A pension was voted him in 1784, by the New Hamp- 
shire Legislature. 

Robert Hartley Marcellus. 286 

Book-finisher. Born in New York City, March 26, 1S27. 

Son of Rev. Aaron A. and Sarah Marcellus Marcellus: 
grandson of John N. and Catharine Vrooman Marcellus: 
great-grandson of Isaac and Anna Dorothea Van Bos- 
kerckV room^^n. Isaac Vrooman (17 12-1807) of Schenec- 
tady, N. Y., was Member of the State Assembly, 1779. 
During the war he raised two regiments for the Conti- 
nental Service, and was rewarded by two large land 
grants from the State in the patents for which his 
service is expressly recited. 

Charles Wells Marsh, Ph.D. 238 

(Johnson City, Tennessee.) 

Chemist. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 12, 185S. 

Son of Edward H. and Harriet Wells Marsh: grand- 
son of Moses and Elizabeth Merrill Marsh: great-grand- 
son of Dr. Job and Elizabeth Smith Marsh: great-great- 
sfrandson of Moses and Hannah Cook Marsh. Captain 
Moses Marsh (1718-96), of Hadley, Mass., who com- 
manded a company in the Indian War, 1757, and was 
on the war-service list of the Hadley Militia, i775-'79- 
He was a member of the Hadley Committee of January 
3, 1774, and of the Standing Committee of Correspond- 
ence. His brother, Daniel Marsh (1725-1810), served 
with the Hadley Militia in 1775, and his son Joseph 
Marsh (i754-'83), private in Hubbard's Company of 
Minutemen, marched from Hadley on the Lexington 
alarm. 

James Maynard. 229 

Chief of Division, Post Office Department. Born in Knoxville, Tenn., 
July 15, 1853. 

Son of Hon. Horace and Laura Ann Washburn 
Maynard: grandson of Ephraim and Diana Cogswell 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 1 17 

Maynard: great-grandson of James Cogswell (1755- 
1837), of Ipswich, Mass., private in Capt. Weston's 
Company, Weston, Massachusetts Militia, in service at 
Dorchester Heights, Crown Point and Ticonderoga. 

Captain William Morton Meredith. 203 

Printer: Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Depart- 
ment. Born in Centrevilie, Indiana, April ii, 1835. 

Son of Samuel Caldwell and Margaret Ballard Mere- 
dith: grandson of John Wheeler and Elizabeth Brisbcy 
Meredith. John Wheeler Meredith (1761-1844), of 
Dover, Del, private Delaware Continental Line, in service 
for three years, in battle at Saratoga and The Cowpens, 
and in quarters at Valley Forge. 

[Nephew of John Luff Meredith, a soldier in the War 
of i8i2and of NorvalD. Meredith, a scout in the Black 
Hawk War.J 

Zebina Moses. 259 

Assistant Superintendent Railway Mail Service. Born in Marcellus, N. Y., 
April 8, 1838. 

Son of Guy and Lucina Scott Bingha?n Moses : grand- 
son of Zebina and Ja7ie Grimes Moses : great-grandson 
of Zebina and Theodosia Curtis Moses : great-great-grand- 
son of Daniel and Mary Wilcox Moses. Daniel Moses 
(1729-1776), of North Canton, Conn., a private soldier, 
died in 1776 in the Army in New York, pro"bably at Har- 
lem Heights, during the retreat after the battle of Long 
Island, August 27, 1776. His nephew, Lieut. Abel MDses 
(i733-'85), was taken prisoner on the same occasion, 
and another nephew, Seba Moses, was a private in Mose- 
ley's Regiment. 

Grandson of Calvin and Betsy Scott Bingham : great- 
grandson of Phineas Scott (1745-1819), of Bennington, 
Vt, Robinson's Regiment, Vermont Militia, at Ticon- 
deroga, Saratoga and Bennington. His wife and children 
prepared ammunition and food for the army at Benning- 
ton. 

Great-grandson of Moses Grimes (b. 1765), of Sims- 
bury, Conn., was a private in the 3d Military Company, 
1 8th Connecticut Regiment. 



Il8 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Great-great-grandson of Eliphalet and Margaret Dyer 
Curtis. Eliphalet Curtis (1734-1806), of Simsbury, 
Conn., was Sergeant, Simsbury Militia, in service at the 
Lexing-ton alarm, and later Lieutenant and Captain, 18th 
Connecticut Regiment and Member of the Connecticut 
Assembly, 1780. 

Herbert Gouverneur Ogden. 221 

Assistant, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Born in New York City, 
April 4, 1S46. 

Son of Morgan Lewis and Eliza G. McLaiighlin 
Ogden : grandson of Samuel Gouverneur and Eliza 
Leivis Ogden: great-grandson of Francis and Elizabeth 
Ludloiv Lewis: great-great-grandson of Hon. Francis 
Lewis (1713-1803), patriot, of New York, one of the 
earliest members of the Sons of Liberty, Member of the 
First Colonial Congress, 1765, and the First Continental 
Congress, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, 
and U. S. Commissioner of Admiralty, 1779: his wife 
was imprisoned by the British in New York, and by 
order of Washington, exchanged for a British officer: 
his son Gen. Morgan Lewis (1754-1844), commanded 
the Continental Army at Stony Point, and in 181 2 was 
Quartermaster-General, U. S. A. 

[Great-great-grandson of Uzal Ogden, of Elizabeth, 
N. J., whose great-grandfather, Capt. Samuel Swaine, 
was one of the founders of representative govern- 
ment in the Newark Colony, 1667, and whose cousins 
Mrs. Hannah Ogden Caldwell, Gen. Matthias Ogden 
(1754-91) and Col. Aaron Ogden (i756-'i839), were 
prominent in the Revolution in New Jersey.] 

Albert Charles Peale, M. D. 184 

Geologist, U. S. Geological Survey. Born at Heckshersville, Schuylkill 
County, Pa., April ist, 1849. 

Son of Charles Willson and Harriet Friel Peale: grand- 
son of Rubens and Eliza Patterson Peale: great-grandson 
of Charles Willson and Rachel Brewer Peale. Charles 
Willson Peale (1741-1827) was Lieutenant and 




CAPTAIN CHARLES WILLSON PEALE 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. II9 

Captain, 4th Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, 1776-8, in 
service from Trenton to Valley Forge; and also member 
of many Revolutionary committes, ijjj-'8i. Of his 
brothers, James Peale (1749-1831) was Ensign inSmall- 
w^ood's Battalion, Lieutenant and Captain, ist Regiment, 
Maryland Continental Line, and Member of the Mary- 
land Cincinnati: St. George Peale (1745-79), was 
Register of the Maryland Land Office, i777-'9, one of 
the Convention committee to sign bills of Credit, 1776, 
and died from exposure in the service as an officer in the 
Commissary Department. His sister, Margaret Jane 
Peale Ramsey, w.as with her husband Col. Nathaniel 
Ramsey in camp at Valley Forge and in the prison at 
New York and Long Island, 1778-80. 

Grandson of Rubens and Eh'za Patterson Peale : great- 
grandson of George and Jane Burd Patterson: great- 
great-grandson of James and Sarah Shippen Burd. 
Col. James Burd (1725-1793), previously Colonel in the 
provincial service of Pennsylvania, 1755-1764: was 
Colonel, 4th Battalion, of the Associated Battalions of 
Lancaster County, Pa. (1775-6). His son Edward 
Burd went to Boston in 1775 with Thompson's Battalion 
of Riflemen: was Major of Flying Camp, and taken 
prisoner at Long Island. Judge Jasper Yates, of Lan- 
caster County, Chairman Committee of Correspondence 
of Lancaster County, 1776, and Col. Peter Grubb were 
sons-in-law of Col. James Burd. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Edward and Sarah 
Plumley Shippen. Edward Shippen (1703-1781) 
was Chairman of Committee of Correspondence of 
Lancaster County Pa., and of other Revolutionary 
committees. [His brother. Dr. Wm. Shippen (1712- 
1801), was Member of the Continental Congress, 1778-9, 
and whose son, Prof. Wm. Shippen, M. D. (1736-1808), 
was Chief Surgeon of the Flying Camp, 1776, and 
Director-General of all military hospitals, i777-'8i.J 

Great-grandson of George and Jane Burd Patterson: 
great-great-grandson of Captain James and Mary Stezvart 



I20 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Patterson: great-great-great-grandson of James and 
Susannah Hoivard Patterson (died 1755), whose second 
husband was Thomas Ewing, and whose sons were 
General James EwiNG (1736-1806), of the Pennsylvania 
Militia, and Captain John Ewing of the Flying Camp 
in i776-'77. 

[Great-great-grandnephew of Col. George Stewart 
(brother of Mary Stezvart Patterson), Lieutenant- 
Colonel, ist Battalion of Lancaster County, Pennsyl- 
vania, and (by step-relationship) of Gen. James Potter, 
of the Pennsylvania Militia.] 

Grandson of Patrick and Elizabeth Shay Friel: great- 
grandson of John and Anna Barbara HoUinger Shay: 
great-great-grandson of Jacob and Anna Barbara Stack- 
house Hollinger. [Great-great-grandnephew of Chris- 
tian Hollinger, Captain in the Flying Camp, in the 
New Jersey Campaign.] 

Peter Francisco Pescud. 292 

(New Orleans, Louisiana.) 

Fire and Marine Insurance Agent. Born in Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 21, 1850. 

Son of Peter Francisco and Mary Is7'-acl Wilson Pescud: 
grandson of Col. Edward and Susan Brooke Francisco 
Pescud: great-grandson of Peter and Catherine Faunt- 
leroy Brooke Francisco. Peter Francisco (1760-1831), 
of Virginia, a famous trooper and partisan, was buried 
at Richmond in 1831, with military honors, with the 
Governor and Senate and House of Representatives in 
attendance. 

Col. John Lewis Peyton. 248 

(Staunton, Virginia.) 

Autiior. Born in Staunton, Va., September 15, 1S24. 

Son of Hon. John Howe and Ayui Montgomeiy Lewis 
Peyton: grandson of John Rowze and Anne Howe Pey- 
ton. John Rowze Peyton (1752-97) was seven years 
a private in the Virginia Continental Line. 

Grandson of John and Mary Preston Lewis. Major 
John Lewis (1758-1823), of Sweet Springs, Va., served 
in the New Jersey Campaign and at Valley Forge; his 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. I2I 

brother Thomas Lewis (1761-1804) was Lieutenant, nth 
Reg't, Virginia Line, 1777, and Liter Captain and Major. 

Great-grandson of William and Aim Montgomery 
Lewis (1724-1811), woundedatBraddock's Defeat, 1754, 
who was appointed Colonel of the ist Virginia Regi- 
ment, 1776. Gen. Andrew Lewis (i72o-'8i), " the hero 
of the Point," Col. Charles Lewis (1736-74) killed at 
Point Pleasant, and Thomas Lewis (1718-90), patriot, 
and Member of the Virginia Conventions were his 
brothers. 

Great-grandson of William and Susanna Smith Preston. 
CoL. William Preston (i729-'83), of Montgomery 
County, Va., patriot and soldier, led his regiment at 
Guilford, and there received the wounds which caused 
his death. 

Calvin Tilden Phillips. 275 

(South Hanover, Mass.) 

Manufacturer. Born in Hanson, Mass., March 3, 1836. 

Son of Ezra and Cathariiie Hitchcock Tilde^i Phillips: 
grandson of Ezra and Mehitabel Allen Phillips: great- 
grandson of Lot and Diana Howland Phillips. Lot Phil- 
lips, of Pembroke, Mass., was a private in Capt. James 
Hatch's Company of Minutemen, April 19, 1775, and 
took part in the fortification of Dorchester Heights. 

Great-great-grandson of Blany and Christian Wads- 
worth Phillips. Blany Phillips (1712-1800), of Pem- 
broke, patriot, was Member of the Pembroke Committee 
of Correspondence and Safety, 1775-76. 

Grandson of Dr. Calvin and Catherhie Hitchcock Tilden : 
great-grandson of Samuel and Mercy Hatch Tilden. 
Deacon Samuel Tilden (i 739-1 834), patriot, served as 
a Member of the Committee of Correspondence and 
Inspection of the Town of Marshfield, Mass. 

Great-grandson of Gad and Sagy Bailey Hitchcock. 
Gad Hitchcock, M. D. (1749-1835), of Pembroke, Mass., 
Surgeon's Mate, 1775, in Thomas's Regiment, Massa- 
chusetts Militia, and Surgeon i776-'77, in Carey's Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Line, in service in the New York 
and Jersey Campaigns. 



122 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Great-great-grandson of Rev. Gad Hitchcock, D. D., 
patriot, whose election sermon before Governor Gage, 
May 25, 1774, was "like a trumpet-call to battle." 

[Great-great-grandnephew of Daniel Hitchcock (1739 
-'77), of Providence, R. I., Colonel 2d Regiment, Rhode 
Island Continental Line, who died from exposure in the 
New Jersey Campaign.] 

Great-great-grandson of John and Ruth Randall '^-^xXty . 
John Bailey (1730-1810), of Hanover, Mass., was Colonel 
2d Regiment, Massachusetts Bay Line, i775-'8o, in 
service from Dorchester Heights to Monmouth, and an 
original member of the Massachusetts Cincinnati. 

Henry Blackman Plumb. 243 

(Peely, Luzerne County, Pa.) 

Lawyer (retired). Born in Hanover Township, Pa., November 13, 1S29. 

Son of Charles and Julia Anna Blackman Plumb: 
grandson of Elisha and Ajuia Htirlbut Blackman. 
Elisha Blackman (1760-1845), of Hanover, Pa., a native 
of Lebanon, Conn., was a volunteer in Captain Bidlack's 
company at the battle of Wyoming, July 3, 1778,* and 
on October 22, 1778, was one of the party which 
gathered up the remains of the dead on the field at 
Wyoming. From 1778 to 1780 he served with the 
militia about the head of the Susquehanna, and in 1781 
enlisted in the 5th Regiment, Connecticut Continental 
Line, and was discharged June 26, 1781, after one year's 
service, for which he received a pension. 

Grandson of Jacob and Rhoda Plumb Plumb: great- 
grandson of Jacob and Prudence Ponders Plumb. Jacob 
Plumb (1751-1822), of Middletown, Conn., commanded 
a Connecticut privateer. 

Charles Porterfield. 282 

(Charlestown, West Virginia.) 

Lawyer. Born in Jefferson County, Va., January 3, 1861. 

Son of George A. and E7nily Terrill Porterfield: 
grandson of George and Mary Tabb Porterfield: great- 



* His name is inscribed on the Wyoming Tablet, among those of the survivors of 
the massacre. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 123 

grandson of William Porterfield (1745-18 15), of Fred- 
erick County, Va., private, Virginia Line, in service at 
White PLains. Col. Charles Porterfield and Capt. 
Robert Porterfield of the Virginia Continental Line, the 
former killed at Camden, were his cousins. * 

Great-grandson of George Tabb, of Gloucester 
County, Va., a soldier of the Revolution. 

[Grandson of George Porterfield, a soldier of 1812, 
and grandnephew of Alexander Porterfield who died 
in service at Norfolk, 1813.] 

Hon. Philip Sidney Post, M.C. 233 

(Galesburg, Illinois.) 

Representative in Congress. Born in Florida, Orange County, N. Y., 
March 19, 1S33. 

Son of Gen. Peter Schuyler and Mary D. Coe Post: 
grandson of Col. Garret Post (d. 1825), private, 
Florida and Warwick Regiment, Orange County, New 
York Militia. 

Grandson of John D. and Sarah Coe Coe. John D. 
Coe (1755-1824), of Orange County, N. Y., was private 
and 2d Lieutenant, New York Continental Line, in service 
in the North under Schuyler and Montgomery. 

Great-grandson of Daniel Coe (b. 1730), private in the 
Haverstraw Regiment, Orange County Militia. 

Great-grandson (maternal line) of John Coe 
(i7i9-'82), Deputy-Chairman, Orange County Com- 
mittee, and President, New York Council of Safety. 

Philip Sidney Post, Jr. 234 

(Galesburg, Illinois.) 

Law Student. Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, November lo, 1869. 

Son of Philip Sidney and Cornelia A. Post Post: grand- 
son of Gen. Peter Schuyler and Mary D. Coe Post : great- 
grandson of Lieut. John D. Coe and of Col. Garret 
Post named above. 

Grandson of William T. and Harriette G. Luce Post : 
great-grandson of James B. and Catherine C. Hathorn 
Post. Great-great-grandson of Gen. John Hathorn, of 



124 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



New York, Colonel of the Florida and Warwick Regi- 
ment, Orange County Militia, in service at the battle of 
Minisink, July 22, 1779, Representative from New York 
in the First and Fourth Congress. 

Hon. Estes George Rathbone. io 

Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General. Born in Hebron, Pa., June 30, 1848. 

Son of Horace Main and Sarah Ja?ie Estes Rathbone: 
grandson of Arnon and Martha Ballard Rathbone: 
great-grandson of Rev. David and Nancy Wales Rath- 
bone: great-great-grandson of Rev. John and Coyitent 
Brown Rathbone. Rev. John Rathbone (i 726-1 826), of 
Stonington, Conn., patriot, was a Member of the Ston- 
ington Committee of Correspondence and Inspection, 
and Signer of the Stonington Memorial to the Connecticut 
Assembly, presented after the assault on Long Point in 
1775, praying for cannon to protect the town against 
other attacks by the British. 

Col. J. Sumner Rogers. 265 

(Orchard Lake, Michigan.) 

Superintendent Michigan Military Academy. Born in Orrington, Maine, 
July 5, 1844. 

Son of Joseph andjohan Harriman Rogers: grandson 
of James Harriman and great-grandson of Peter Harri- 
man, private, Gordon's Company, 7th New Hampshire 
Militia, December 16, 1776, to March, 1777, and in 
service at Burgoyne's Surrender, October, 1877. 

William Edgar Rogers. 299 

Lawyer. Born in Huntington, N. Y., November 6, 1S40. 

Son of William and Charlotte Velsor Rogers: grandson 
of William and Esther Hawley Rogers. William 
Rogers, of New Rochelle, N. Y., served as private and 
Sergeant in Col. Malcom's Regiment, Continental Line, 
and probably later as Captain. 

George Carr Round. 293 

(Manassas, Virginia.) 

Lawyer. Born in Kingston, Pa., September 14, 1839. 

Son of William and Sarah Ann Carr Round: grand- 
son of George and Sally Hopkms Round: great-grand- 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 125 

son of Bartram and Alee Wz/kmson Round. Bartram 
Round (1741-1833), private and Sergeant in the "Scit- 
uate Hunters," Rhode Island Militia, April 20, 1775, to 
October, 1776, and later 2d Lieutenant in the same, and 
engaged in coast-guard duty. In i78o-'8i, he was 
private in a local company of coast-guard militia. He 
was a pensioner. 

Addison Gross Sargent. 247 

Student of Medicine, Georgetown University. Born in Hancock County, 
Maine, March 17, 1869. 

Son of Wyer Groves and Maria Szisan Dix Sargent: 
grandson of Benjamin Choate and Susanna Cole Sargent : 
great-grandson of Thomas Herrick and Susajnia Cleaves 
Cole. Thomas Herrick Cole (d. 1819), of Sedgwick, 
Me., was a private in Hutchinson's Regiment, Massa- 
chusetts Line, and also in Dodge's Company of Gerrish's 
Regiment, taking part in the siege of Boston. 

[Great-grandnephew of Col. William Prescott (1726 
"'95)' of Pepperell, Mass., who commanded a Regiment 
of Minutemen at the Lexington alarm, and the Massa- 
chusetts Provincials at Bunker Hill; also of Gen. Oliver 
Prescott (1731-1804), Member of the Board of War, 
and of the Supreme Executive Council of Massachusetts, 
and, i778-'8i, Major-General of Militia.] 

William George Sargent. 287 

(Castine, Maine.) 

Merchant. Born in Sedgwick, Me., March 8, 1848. 

Son of William Haskell and Mary Redman Sargent: 
grandson of Benjamin Choate and Susannah Cole 
Sargent: great-grandson of Thomas Sargent, M. D., 
Surgeon attached to Saltonstall's Expedition against 
Castine in 1779. 

Great-grandson of Thomas Herrick and Susanna 
Cleaves Cole. Thomas Herrick Cole was a private in 
Hutchinson's Massachusetts Regiment, in service at the 
siege of Boston, and later in Gerrish's Regiment. 



126 sons of the american revolution. 
Henry Clay Sayles. 215 

Clerk, War Department. Born in Woonsocket, R. I., December 27, 1S38. 

Son of Charles and Eliza Hicks Sc\y\Qs: grandson of 
Elisha and Sarah Walliyig Sayles: great-grandson of 
Richard and Rhody Alby Sayles. Richard Sayles (died 
1822 in Norwich, N. Y.), was Lieutenant, Rhode Island 
Militia, in active service, lyyy-'Si. 

Hon. George Howell Shields. 237 

Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. Born in Bardstown, Ky., 
June 19, 1S42. 

Son of George Washington and Martha Anri Hotvell 
Shields: grandson of Major Daniel S. and Sarah Garnett 
Shipp Howell : great-grandson of Caleb and Rebecca 
Styles Howell. Caleb Howell was express messenger 
and courier, New Jersey Continental Line. 

Great-great-grandson of Ebenezer Howell, Major, 2d 
Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line, 1776, whose 
sons were Major Richard Howell and Capt. John 
Howell, New Jersey Line. 

[Grandnephew of Lieut. Edmund Shipp, of Virginia, 
who was voted by Congress a sword for distinguished 
bravery in the defense of Fort Stephenson, in the War 
of 1812. His father Edmund Shipp was a soldier in the 
Revolution.] 

Howard Sill. 228 

Born in Bethlehem, Albany County, N. Y., October 17, 1867. 

Son of James Mather and Mary Arm Udell S\\\\ grand- 
son of William Nickoll and Margaret Mather Sill: great- 
grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Nicoll Sill. Richard 
Sill (1755-90), of Lyme, Conn., enlisted in 1776, was 
Lieutenant and Quartermaster, loth Regiment, Connecti- 
cut Line; Paymaster and Regimental Clothier in the 
8th Regiment, Connecticut Line, 1777-81; Captain, 5th 
Regiment, 1781, and in 1783, in the ist Regiment, 
Continental Line, served i78i-'83, as Aide-de-Camp to 
Gen. Lord Stirling, with rank of Major. His brother, 
David Fithen Sill (1733-1813), of Lyme, Conn., was 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 127 

Lieutenant-Colonel, ist Regiment, Connecticut Line, 
and a Member of the Connecticut Cincinnati. His great- 
grandfather, Joseph Sill, of Massachusetts, commanded 
a company in King Philip's War, in 1676. 

William Reynolds Singleton. 300 

Grand Secretary, Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, Free and Accepted 
Masons. Born in Norfolk, Va., October 24, 1818. 

Son of Henry and Mary Ann {Reynolds) Waldron Sin- 
gleton: grandson of John and Sarah Dyso7i Singleton. 
John Singleton served as private in Col. Daniel Morgan's 
Regiment (Co. No. 12), and in other Regiments of the 
Virginia Line, until discharged at Philadelphia at the close 
of the war. 

[Grandson of Benjamin and Mary Waldron Reynolds. 
Benjamin Reynolds, of Bristol, R. 1., served in the Con- 
tinental Army at the siege of Boston — in which Regi- 
ment has not yet been ascertained.] 

Henry Martyn Skillman, Jr. 204 

(Lexington, Kentucky.) 

Banker. Born in Lexington. Ky., February 4, 1863. 

Thomas T. Skillman. 205 

(Lexington, Kentucky.) 

Merchant. Born in Lexington, Ky., April lo, i860. 

Sons of Dr. Henry Martyn and Margaret Scott Skill- 
man : grandson of Matthew Thompson and Winny 
Webb Scott: great-grandsons of Matthew and Elizabeth 
Thompso7i Scott. Matthew Scott (d. lySo-'Si), of 
Shippensburg, Pa., Lieutenant Pennsylvania Rifle 
Regiment, and Captain, State Regiment of Foot, who 
was a captive in the Jersey prison-ship, 1776. Of his 
brothers, Moses Scott was a Surgeon, and John Scott 
a Commissary. 

Great-grandson of Isaac and Lucy Ware Webb. 
Capt. Isaac Webb (1758-1833), of Virginia, was 2d Lieu- 
tenant, 7th Virginia Continental Line, 1777; ist Lieu- 
tenant, 5th Regiment of the Line, 1779, and served as 
Captain under Greene in the Southern Campaign. 



128 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Frank Birge Smith. 252 

Real Estate Broker. Born in Washington City, March 6, 1859. 

Son of Francis Hickox and Anna E. Birge Smith: 
grandson of Samuel Mansfield and Eliza Wheeler Smith : 
great-grandson of Samuel and Lucy //a// Smith: great- 
great-grandson of John and Mary Ford Smith: great- 
great-great-grandson of Ephraim and Sarah Newton 
Smith, Ephraim Smith (1715-1805), of Milford, Conn., 
was private in Douglas's Battalion, Connecticut Militia, 
1776, in battle at Long Island and White Plains, and in 
1779, as a volunteer, marched to the relief of New Haven. 

Robert Atwater Smith. 266 

Organist. Born in New Haven, Conn., July 2, 1849. 

Son of Elmore and Lucy Bassett Smith : grandson ot 
Amos and Ejinice Clark Smith: great-grandson of John 
and Mary Ford Smith : great-great-grandson of Ephraim 
and Sarah Newton Smith. Ephraim Smith (1715-1805), 
of Milford, Conn., was private in Douglas's Battalion, 
in service at Long Island and White Plains, and also a 
volunteer to repel the attack on New Haven, 1779. 

Grandson of Hezekiah and Loly Atwater Bassett: 
great-grandson of Hezekiah and Sarah Ives Bassett. 
Hezekiah Bassett (1743-1823) was a private 17th Com- 
pany, Connecticut Militia, from Hamden, at the invasion 
of New Haven in 1779. 

Great-grandson of Medad and Rhoda Dickerman At- 
water: great-great-grandson of David and Elizabeth 
Bassett Atwater. David Atwater (1723-1806) and his 
son Medad Atwater (1751-1832) took part in the 
defense of New Haven in 1779, the latter as a private in 
the 17th Company, Connecticut Militia. 

ARMAT STODDART. 250 

Patent Attorney. Born in Philadelphia, November 12, 1842. 

Son of Isaac and Lydia Butler Slodd-AXi: grandson of 
Capt. Zebulon and Jemima Fish Butler: great-grandson 
of Zebulon and Lydia JoJmsoyi Butler. Col. Zebulon 
Butler (i73i-'95), who served as Ensign in the Old 




COLONEL ZEBULON BUTLER 
[from an old paintinc;] 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 129 

French War and in 1761 as Captain in the Connecticut 
Provincials: was Lieutenant-Colonel, 3d Regiment, Con- 
necticut Line, in the New Jersey Campaign, and sub- 
sequently Colonel of the 2d, 4th and ist Regiments. 
He commanded the garrison at Wyoming in 1778, and 
served in Sullivan's Indian Expedition in 1779, and 
was a Member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

MiLO CoLBURN Summers. 295 

Clerk, Surgeon-General's Office. Born in Millersburgh, 111., August 6, 1S62. 

Son of Ewing and Joanna Colburn Summers : grand- 
son of Adna and Clarissa Cutter Colburn : great-grand- 
son of John and Miriam Butler Cutter: great-great- 
grandson of Richard and Kezia Pierce Cutter. Richard 
Cutter (1724-95), of Hudson, N. H., served one month 
in the Boston Campaign, in the New Hampshire Militia: 
his son, Seth Cutter, served in the same Regiment at 
Bennington, Princeton, and Trenton. 

Washington Nelson Toler. 227 

Real Estate Agent. Born at "Mount Chene," King George County, Va., 
January i, 1840. 

Son of Hopeful and Ann Nicholas Grymes Toler: 
grandson of Henry and Anna Blackwell Toler. [Hope- 
ful Toler, as a private in Henry St. George Tucker's 
Mounted Rifles, took part in the defense of Baltimore 
in 1812.] 

Grandson of George Nicholas and Ann Eilbeck Mason 
Grymes: great-grandson of Benjamin and Ann Nicholas 
Grymes. Benjamin Grymes (d. 1803.?), of "Eagle's 
Nest," King George County, Va., was Captain, Wash- 
ington's Life Guard. His sister Mary was the wife of 
Col. Richard Kidder Meade, of Washington's Staff. 
Col. Henry Lee and his four patriot brothers were his 
cousins. 

Great-grandson of George and Elizabeth Barnes Hooe 
Mason. George Mason, of "Lexington," Fairfax County, 
Va., was Captain in the Virginia Line. 

Great-great-grandson of George and Ann Eilbeck 
Mason. George Mason (i725-'92), of " Gunston Hall," 



130 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



patriot, was Member of the Virginia Committee of 
Safety, author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, and one of 
the framers of the Federal Constitution.* 

Richard Shubrick Trapier. 271 

Examiner, U. S. Pension Bureau. Born in Charleston, S. C, April 14, 1S56. 

Son of Rev. Dr. Paul and Sarah R. Dehon Trapier: 
grandson of Paul and Sarah Alicia Sh7ibrick Trapier: 
great-grandson of Thomas and Mary Brayiford Shubrick. 
Col. Thomas Shubrick (1755-1810), of " Belvidere," near 
Charleston, was Captain, 5th Regiment, South Carolina 
Continental Line (Jan. 15, 1778), and was Aide to Gen. 
Greene, in service at Savannah and at Eutaw Springs, 
where his gallantry won him a medal and the thanks of 
Congress. After the capitulation of Charleston he was 
appointed Commissary of Prisoners. His sister Mary 
Shubrick Rutledge (1754-1837) was the wife of Gov. 
Edward Rutledge, patriot, and Signer of the Declaration 
of Independence. 

Rowan Boone Tuley. 295 

Clerk, Inter-State Commerce Commission. Born in New Albany, Ind., 
August 2, 1867. 

Son of Seth Woodruff and Nathalia Peters Tuley: 
grandson of Preston Floyd and Mary Crane Woodruff 
Tuley: great-grandson of Seth and Sally Crane Wood- 
ruff: great-great-grandson of Israel and Mary Cooper 
Crane. Israel Crane (i755-'95), of Newark, N. J., was 
Cornet, Essex Troop of Horse, New Jersey Militia. 

Grandson of Nathaniel and Eliza Lane Peters: great- 
grandson of John and Nancy Rotisseau Peters. John 
Peters (1762-1833) was a private in the Virginia Militia, 
in service at Williamsburg and Little York. 

Medical Inspector William Knickerbocker 
VanReypen, U.S.N. 242 

Assistant Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department. Born 
in Bergen, N. J., November 14, 1840. 

Son of Cornelius C. and Christina Van Alen Van- 
Reypen: grandson of Cornelius and Aeltje VanHorn 

*See pages. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 131 

VanReypen: great-grandson of Daniel and Elizabeth 
Terhune VanReypen. Daniel VanReypen (1736-1818), 
of Bergen, N. J., patriot, was Lieutenant of the irregu- 
lar militia of Hudson County,* and served as a scout: 
he was for a time imprisoned in the Old Sugar House in 
New York City. 

Hon. Joseph Henry Walker, M.C. 197 

Representative in Congress from Massachusetts. Born in Boston Decem- 
ber 21, 1829. 

Son of Joseph and Hannah Thayer Chapm Walker: 
grandson of Joseph and Mehitabel Gibbs Walker. Joseph 
Walker ist (1760-1852), of Sherborn, Mass., private, 
Massachusetts Militia, 1776-80, in service in Howe's 
Regiment, and in other branches of the service, chiefly 
in Rhode Island. 

Major William Holcomb Webster. 284 

Chief Examiner, Civil Service Commission. Born in Burlington, Conn., 
January 24, 1S39. 

Son of William Burnham and Sarah Adelia Hall Web- 
ster: grandson of Charles and Ha7inah Phelps Webster. 
Charles Webster (d. 1801), of Harwinton, Conn., was 
a private in Belden's Regiment, Connecticut Militia, at 
Peekskill, 1777, and in the 3d Regiment, Connecticut 
Continental Line, 1780. 

Grandson of Elisaph and Rhoda Clark Hall: great- 
grandson of Diamond and Sybil Ticttlc Clark. Diamond 
(or Dimon) Clark (1750-1835), of Burlington, Conn., 
was private, 6th Regiment, Connecticut Continental 
Line, 1778-1779, in service at West Point, White Plains 
and Redding, and previously, in 1777, in Belden's Regi- 
ment, Connecticut Militia, stationed at Peekskill. 

Otis Caleb Wight. 260 

Teacher. Born in Westford, Mass., August 12, 1817. 

Son of Caleb and Mary Osgood Wight : grandson of 
Nahum and Abigail Bullard Wight. Nahum Wight 



* His sword is still in the possession of his descendants. 



13-2 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

( 1 745-1 854), of Medtleld, Mass., was sergeant in Bul- 
lard's Company, of Brewer's Regiment, Massachusetts 
Militia, and was wounded at Bunker Hill while fighting 
behind "the rail fence." As Ensign under Gates, he 
was present at the surrender of Burgoyne, and later 
served in the garrison at Fort Ticonderoga, as Lieutenant 
in the Massachusetts Line.* 

Lloyd Buchanan Wight. 261 

Patent Lawyer. Born in Washington City, November 29, 1S59. 

Son of Otis Caleb and Mary Isabella Buchanan Wight: 
great-grandson of Lieut. Nahum Wight, of the Massa- 
chusetts Militia, and Gen. Andrew Buchanan, of Mary- 
land. (See Records oi JohnB. Wight, No. 144, p. 80, 
and Otis Caleb Wight, No. 260, p. 131). 

Dr. Ahab George Wilkinson. 296 

Principal Examiner, U. S. Patent Office. Born in Willimantic, Conn., 
February 22, 1S34. 

Son of Ahab and Eliza Ann Jillsoii Wilkinson : grand- 
son of Joseph and Martha Jencks Wilkinson: great- 
grandson of Ahab and Abigail Scott ^\\V\x\s,qx\. Ahab 
Wilkinson was private, Rhode Island Militia, in the 
company in which his father was Lieutenant. Stephen 
Hopkins, Signer of the Declaration, was his cousin. 

Great-great-grandson of John and Rebecca Scott 
Wilkinson. John Wilkinson (1719-1804), of Smith- 
field, R, 1., was Lieutenant, Rhode Island Militia, and 
was son of John Wilkinson, Captain in King Philip's 
War. 

Great-grandson of Henry Jencks, Captain, Rhode 
Island Militia. 

George L. Wilkinson. 297 

Assistant Examiner, U. S. Patent Office. Born in Washington, Sept. 9, 1868. 

Son of Dr. A. G. ■ax\& Lue Wilson Wilkinson: great- 
great-great-grandson of Lieut. John Wilkinson, of Rhode 
Island. (See record next preceding). 



* His commission, signed by John Hancock, is in the possession of Mr. O. C. 
Wight. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 1 33 

Grandson of Major Nathaniel Warfield ^ndMaryBur- 
nam Wilson : great-grandson of Dr. Nathaniel Augustus 
and Caroline Randolph Woodson Wilson: great-great- 
grandson of Josiah and Elizabeth Woodson Woodson. 
JosiAH Woodson was Major in the Virginia Militia. 

Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel and Margaret Par- 
ker Wilson. Nathaniel Wilson was Captain, Maryland 
(Hagerstown) Militia, 1776. 

Charles McAllister Willcox. 240 

(Denver, Colorado.) 

Real Estate Broker. Born at Angel Island, California, March lo, 1S70. 

Orlando Blodgett Willcox. 291 

(Denver, Colorado.) 

Attorney at Law. Born August 19, 1867. 

Sons of Gen. Orlando Bolivar and Marie Louise Farns- 
worth Willcox : great-grandsons of Capt. John Willcox, 
of the Connecticut Line, whose record in full is given 
under the name of Geyi. O. B. Willcox, No. i8i, page 8i. 

Rev. Clarence Eugene Woodman, Ph.D. 251 

Clergyman. Born in Saco, Me., November i, 1852. 

Son of Andrew Jackson and Abigail Ay er Haley V^ ood- 
man: grandson of Stephen and Mehitabel Fenderson 
Woodman: great-grandson of Ephraim and Olive Bryant 
Woodman. Ephraim Woodman (b. 1765), of Pleasant 
Point, Me., served three years and five months as private 
in the 3d and 8th Reg'ts, Massachusetts Continental Line. 

Grandson of Benjamin and Betsey Sargent Haley: 
great-grandson of Joseph and Dorcas Westcotf^-AKgtXiV. 
great-great-grandson of Chase and Martha BiLzzell Sar- 
gent. Chase Sargent (i 744-1840), of Haverhill, private 
in the Massachusetts Militia, fought at Concord and Lex- 
ington, and received a pension. 

Hon. John Vines Wright. 83 

Lavv-Officer, General Land Office. Born in Purdy, Tenn., June 29, 1S28. 

Son of Benjamin and Martha Ami Hicks Wright: 
grandson of John Wright (b. 1759), of Savannah, Ga., 
Captain of Georgia Troops. [Benjamin Wright (1784- 
1860) was ist Lieutenant, 39th Infantry, in the War of 
1812, promoted to Captain for gallantry at "The Horse- 
shoe."] 



134 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

MEMBERS ADMITTED 

SINCE APRIL 19, iSpi. 



William Weaver Danenhower. 305 

Attorney at Law (retired). Born in Philadelphia, February 22, 1820. 

Son of Charles and Rachel Weaver Danenhower: 
grandson of John and Eve Riter Danenhower. John 
Danenhower (died about 1800), of Germantown, Pa., 
served as Wagonmaster, and was present with the 
Continental Army at Valley Forge, Germantown and 
Brandywine. 

Med. Director Richard Grain Dean, U.S.N. 307 

Medical Director, U. S. Navy. Born in Harrisburg, Pa., May 27, 1833. 

Son of Dr. Alexander Tracey and Adeline Grain Dean : 
grandson of Richard Morgan and Elizabeth Whitehill 
Grain : great-grandson of Ambrose and Agiies Mojga7i 
Grain. Ambrose Grain (b. 1750), of Lancaster County, 
Pa., as Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania State Regiment 
of Foot (13th Regiment, Pa. Continental Line), fought 
at Brandywine and Germantown, and in the 2d Regi- 
ment, Pennsylvania Continental Line, served through 
the Southern Campaign until the surrender at Yorktown. 

Great-grandson of Hon. Robert Whitehill (1738- 
1813), of Cumberland County, Pa., patriot, Member of 
the Philadelphia Convention of 1776, and of the Con- 
stitutional Convention. 

Lew^is Sydenham Hayden. 310 

Bookseller. Born in Baltimore, Md., September ii, 1833. 

Son of Edwin Parsons and Elizabeth Hanse Hayden : 
grandson of Horace Handel and Marie Antoinette Robin- 
son Hayden : great-grandson of Thomas and Abigail 
Parsons WcVj^txx. Thomas Hayden, of Windsor, Conn., 
was Sergeant in Hayden's Company of Minutemen, 
Sergeant-Major in the 8th Connecticut Regiment, 1775, 
and ist Lieutenant, 3d Regiment, Connecticut Conti- 
nental Line. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 135 

Samuel Kellogg Hall. 312 

Journalist. Born in Trenton, N. Y., August 27, 1822. 

Son of James and Sally Chapin Hall: grandson of John 
and Sarah Reynolds Hall. John Hall (1756-1832) 
served as private in Burrall's Regiment, Connecticut Line, 
served in the Northern Campaign of 1776, and was 
made prisoner at The Cedars, and in the 2d Regiment, 
New York Line, at Valley Forge and Monmouth. 

Grandson of David and Ricih Seymour Chapin. 
David Chapin (1762-1858), of New Hartford. Conn., 
served 1778-81, as private in Webb's Regiment, Con- 
necticut Line, and was pensioned in 1818. 

Henry Peter Renouf Holt. 304 

Born in New London, Conn., June 12, 1840. 

Son of Robert and Nancy Renouf Holt: grandson of 
Robert and Nancy Hempstead Holt: great-grandson of 
John and Martha Coit Holt. John Holt (i746-'8i), of 
New London, Conn., served as a volunteer to repel 
Benedict Arnold's attack upon New London, Septern- 
ber 6, 1781, and was killed in battle at Fort Griswold. 
His name is inscribed upon the monument on Groton 
Heights. 

William Luff Meredith. 308 

(Seattle, Washington.) 

Real Estate Broker. Born in Indianapolis, Ind., October 12, 1868. 

Son of William Martin and Teresa A. Rickey Meredith : 
grandson of Samuel Caldwell and Margaret Ballard 
Meredith : great-grandson of John Wheeler Meredith, 
of the Delaware Continental Line, whose record is given 
under the name of Capt. W. M. Meredith, No. 203, p. 117. 

Henry Benson Munn. 306 

Lawyer. Born in Newark. N. J., August I, 1826. 

Son of Silas and Lydia Campbell Munn: grandson of 
Amos 2iX\6. Jane Dodd Munn. Amos Munn (1763-1805), 
of Newark, N. J., was private, Essex County, N. J. 
Militia, as were also his cousins, Samuel Munn and John 



136 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



MuNN, later Lieutenant, Continental Line, and confined 
in the "Jersey" prison-ship. 

Grandson of Phineas Campbell, private, 2d Regiment, 
Essex County Militia. 

Lieut. Col. Wm. M. Postlethwaite, U.S.A. 311 

(West Point, New York.) 

Professor, U. S. Military Academy. Born in Lexington, Ky.,July 19, 1839. 

Son of Captain G. Lewis and Sarah Mortoji Postleth- 
waite: grandson of John and Mary Scott Postlethwaite: 
great-grandson of Charles and Mary Sweney Scott. 
Gen. Charles Scott (1733-1813), of Cumberland 
County, Va., served with Braddock, and was Captain 
of the first company enlisted south of the James River 
for the Revolutionary War. He was Colonel, 3d Vir- 
ginia Battalion (August 12, 1776), and Brigadier-General 
(April 2, 1777). He served in New Jersey, at Stony 
Point, and Charleston, was a prisoner of war, i78o-'8i, 
and breveted Major-General. His brother, Major Joseph 
Scott of the Virginia Line, was wounded at German- 
town. 

William Anderson Raborg. 309 

Assistant Geologist, U. S. Geological Survey. Born in Chester, Pa. 
March 22, 1852. 

Son of Charles William and Ami Cornelia Crosby 
Raborg: grandson of William and Mary Hubley (Eislen) 
Raborg: great-grandson of Adam Hubley (i74o-'93), 
soldier and patriot. Member of the Philadelphia Port Bill 
Committee, 1774; Lieutenant, ist Pennsylvania Battalion. 
1775; Major, loth Regiment, 1776, and Lieutenant- 
Colonel Commandant, nth Regiment, i779-'8i. 

Grandson of John and Catherine Beale Crosby: great- 
grandson of Peirce and Christia^ia Richards Crosby: 
great-great-grandson of John Crosby (1748-1822), Cap- 
tain in Morgan's Regiment, Pennsylvania Flying Camp, 
and in the 3d Battalion, Associated Battalions, Chester, 
1776; he was a prisoner of war in the New York prison- 
ships for six months. John Morton (1724-77), patriot, 
of Chester County, Pa., signer of the Declaration of In- 
dependence, was his brother-in-law. 



SUPPLEMENTARY ALPHABET. 137 

William Pratt Wetherell. 313 

Clerk, U. S. Pension Office. Born in Taunton, Mass., August 19, 1837. 

Son of Hiram Barney and Jane Lawton Pratt Weth- 
erell: grandson of Elisha Lawton and Hamiah Chase 
Pratt: great-grandson of William and Mary Lawton 
Pratt. Lieut. William Pratt (1759-1845), of Olney's 
Regiment, Rhode Island Continental Line, served 
from May, 1775, to December 25, 1783, and was 
an original member of the Rhode Island Society of the 
Cincinnati. He was in the New Jersey and Rhode 
Island Campaigns, at Valley Forge and at Yorktown, 
and at the close of the war was in command of the 
garrison at Saratoga. 




List of Members. 



Charles Abert, ....... 3 

Col. Silvanus Thayer Abert, . . - . 3 

Rev. DanieIv Dulany Addison, .... 84 

Rev. Thomas Grafton Addison, D.D., . . . 84 

William Edwards Annin, ----- 85 

Major George Augustus Armes, - - . - 3 
Amory Austin, .-.----4 

Frank Lloyd Averill, - . . . . 86 

Dr. Elroy McKendree Avery, . . - - 86 

Elbert Hall Baker, ----- 86 

Dr. Frank Baker, ------ 87 

Dudley Baldwin, -....- 4 

William Dickson Baldwin, ----- 87 

Ebenezer Burgess Ball, ----- 4 

Capt. George Washington Ball, - - . . 4 

Joseph Josiah Gilbert Ball, . . . . 5 

Commander Albert Smith Barker, U.S.N. - - 88 

William Hamilton Bayly, ----- 88 

Hon. George T. Beck, ------ 5 

Paul Beckwith, ..-.-. 6 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin, ------ 88 

Pay-Inspector Luther Guiteau Billings, U.S.N. , - 87 

Frederick Ripley Blount, ----- 89 

Henry Fitch Blount, ----- 89 

Hon. Charles Addison Boutelle, M.C, - - . 7 

Dr. James Thacher Boutelle, - . . 8 

Col. John Bryan Bowman, - - - S 



140 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

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Charges Augustus Boynton, . . . . g 

Charles Hudson Boynton, . . . . . g 

Gen. Henry Van Ness Boynton, - - . . g 

Dr. John Ei,y Brackett, . - . . . g 

George Lothrop Bradley, ----- g 

Hon. Walter Lawrence Bragg, - - - - io 

Hon. Clifton Rhodes Breckinridge, M.C, - - lo 

Gen. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, U.S.A., - - n 

Judge Samuel Miller Breckinridge,* - - . 89 

Hon. William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, M.C, - 11 

Hon. Alexander Thompson Britton, - - . go 

Newton May Brooks, - - - - - . - 90 

Alexander Brown, --.-.. gj 

Col. John Bell Brownlow, ----- 12 

RoBERDEAU Buchanan, . _ - . . j^ 

Gen. Franklin George Butterfield, - - - 14 

Lieut. Bernard Abert Byrne, U.S.A., - . - ga 

Lieut. Charles Byrne, U.S.A., - - . . 14 

Prof. William Daniel Cabell, - - - - 15 

Albert Carhart, ------- g3 

Gen. Edward Clement Carrington, - . . g^ 

Peyton Rodes Carrington, ----- 93 

Capt. Alfred Ball Carter, - - . . 16 

Hiram Guernsey Ch.\ndler, ----- 94 

John Pascal Charlton, . . . . . 55 

Commander Colby Mitchel Chester, U.S.N., - - 95 

Rev. John Chester, D.D., - - - - - 96 

Prof. John White Chickering, - - - - 16 

Rev. Thomas Sprncer Childs, D.D., - - - 96 

Allen Culling Clark, ------ 18 

Alonzo Howard Clark, ..-■-- 16 

Appleton Prentiss Clark, ----- 17 

Appleton Prentiss Clark, Jr., - - - - 18 

♦ Deceased. 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 141 

PAGE 

George L,afayette Clark, . . . . . ig 

Dr. Daniei. B. Ci^arke, - . . . . 19 

Frank Wigglesworth Ci^arke, - - - - 19 

Lieut. Powhatan Henry Clarke, U.S.A., - - 20 

Col. Isaac Edwards Clarke, ----- 19 

Rev. Samuel Davis Clayton, - . - . 96 

William McKendree Clayton, . - - . 97 

Dr. Horace Coleman, - . . . . 20 

Benjamin Azariah Colonna, - - - - - 21 

Charles William Coombs, ----- 21 

Capt. Calvin Duvall Cowles, U.S.A., - - - 22 

William Van Zandt Cox, ----- 22 

Capt. Robert Craig, U.S.A., - - - - - 22 

Henry Lyon Crane, ------ 23 

Rev. John Newton Culbertson, - - - - 97 

Gen. James Jackson Dana, U.S.A., - . . 23 

Richard Dana, ----- . - 97 

William Weaver Danenhower, - - - - 134 

Senator John Warwick Daniel, - - - - 97 

Theodore Davenport, - - - . . gg 

Theodore Davenport, Jr., ----- 99 

Mills Dean, ------- 24 

Medical Director Richard Crain Dean, U.S.N., - 134 

William Augustin DeCaindry, - - - - 24 

Hon. Josiah Dent, ------ 25 

Commander Francis William Dickens, U.S.N., - - 99 

George Doolittle, ------ 99 

Rev. James Owen Dorsey, ----- 99 

Hon. John Watkinson Douglass, - - - - 25 

James Taylor DuBois, ------ 25 

Capt. Richard Catlin DuBois, U.S.A., - - - 25 

James Francis Duhamel, ----- 26 

Robert Edward Earll, ----- 27 



142 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

PAGE 

Prof. John Robie Eastman, U.S.N., . . . 27 

Dr. Otis Judd Eddy, ------ 27 

Hon. Matthew Gault Emery, . . - . 28 

Hon. Charles James Faulkner (U. S. Senate), - - 28 

Granville Fernald, ------ 28 

Gen. Charles William Field, - - - - 106 

DeVin Finckel, ------ 100 

Charles Willis Fisher, ----- 100 

Edmund Flagg,* ..---- 29 

Surgeon James Milton Flint, U.S.N., - - - 29 

Abial Abbott Forbush, ----- loi 

Hon. William Pierce Frye (U. S. Senate), - - 30 

Dr. Edward Miner Gallaudet, - - - - 30 

Henry Wise Garnett, - - - - - - 31 

Hon. John Rowzee Garrison, . . - - 32 

Col. Horatio Gates Gibson, U.S.A., - - - - 32 

Wilson Lindsley Gill, ----- 33 

Col. George Washington Gist, - - - - 33 

Dr. George Brown Goode, ----- 33 

Richard Urouhart Goode, ----- 35 

Prof. Joseph Claybaugh Gordon, - - - 36 

Morton Gordon, ------- 36 

John Requa Graham, ----- 36 

John Allen Graves, ------ 102 

Gen. Adolphus Washington Greely, U.S.A., - - 37 

Andrew Jordan Green, ----- 102 

Bernard Richardson Green, . - . - 37 

Maj. Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf, U.S.A., - - 102 

Charles Parke Grice, - - - - - 103 

Francis Grice, ----- - 103 

Francis Elliott Grice, ----- 37 

Hon. Charles Henry Grosvenor, M.C, - - - 38 

Gen. Peter Valentine Hagner, U.S.A., - - 38 

* Deceased. 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 143 



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Samuel Kellogg Hall, ... - - 135 

Eminel Potter Halsted, ----- 103 

John Jacob Halstead, ----- 38 

Russell Benjamin Harrison, ----- 104 

Alexander Richmond Hart, - - - - 39 

Frederick Loviad Harvey, ----- 39 

Dr. Thomas Edwards Hatch, . - - - 40 

John Beers Hawes, ------ 105 

Lewis Sydenham Hayden, - - " - - - i34 

Hon. John Steele Henderson, M.C, - - - 40 

Hon. William Wirt Henry, . . - - 41 

Very Rev. Augustine Francis Hewit, D.D., - - 105 

Col. Edward Miles Heyl, U.S.A., - - - 42 

RoMYN Hitchcock, ------ 42 

Dr. Walter James Hoffman, - . . - 42 

Henry Peter Renouf Holt, - - - - - i35 

Rev. Arnold Harris Hord, - . . - 43 

William Edward Horton, ----- 106 

Col. Addison Augustus Hosmer, - - - - 106 

Walter Hough, - - - - - . - - 43 

James Ross Howard, ------ 44 

William Wheeler Hubbell, ----- 44 

Capt. Alfred Epher Hunt, - - - - 107 

Henry Morris Husband, ----- 44 

John L. Husband, ------ 44 

Stephen Alonzo Jackson, - - - - - i97 

Jefferson Henry Jennings, . - - - 45 

Arnold Burges Johnson, ----- 45 

Gen. Bradley Tyler Johnson - - - - 45 

James Bowen Johnson, ------ 46 

Capt. John Burges Johnson, U.S.A., . - - 45 

Jerome Fletcher Johnson, ----- 107 

Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston,* - - - 47 

♦Deceased. 



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Rev. James Gibson Johnson, D.D., - - - - 45 

Dr. Joseph Taber Johnson, " . - - - 45 

Lorenzo M Johnson, ------ 45 

WiLLARD Drake Johnson, ----- loS 

Hon. Thomas Goode Jones, - - - - 108 

Rear-Admirai, James Edward Jouett, U.S.N., - - 109 

Orange Judd, ------- 47 

Samueiv Prescott Keller, ----- 109 

Lieut. Lyman Walter Vere Kennon, U.S.A.,- - - 48 

David Kimball, - - - - - no 

Rear- Admiral Lewis Asheield Kimberly, U.S.N., - no 

Ephraim Douglass King, ----- 49 

Harry King, . - - . . - 4^ 

Frank Hall Knowlton, ----- 45 

George William Knox, - - - - - - no 

William Salsbury Knox, - - - - - in 

Rev. Samuel Kramer, ------ 50 

Hon. Edward Samuel Lacey, - - - in 

Dr. Daniel Smith Lamb, - - - - - in 

Prof. Samuel Pierpont Langley. .. . . 50 

Philip Fillmore Larner, - - - - - in 

Dr. William Lee, ------ 50 

Hon. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, M.C, - - 51 

Augustus Perry Leidy, - - - - - 112 

Col. Charles McKnight Leoser, - - - - 112 

Francis Ellington Leupp, - - - - - 112 

Charles Boynton Lockwood, ----- 52 

Hon. George Bailey Loring, - - - - 113 

John Parker Lothrop, ------ 52 

Col. Marshall McDonald, ----- 52 

Capt. Thomas Mower McDougall, U.S.A., - - 113 

William Osborn McDowell, - - - - 113 

Hon. John V. McDuffie, M.C, - - - - 114 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 145 

PAGE 

Henry Benjamin McKean, - - - - - 115 

Dr. Louis Mackali., . . . . . 53 

Cyrus Cui^bertson Maclay, - - - - 115 

Andrew Buzzell Magoun, - - - - - 115 

Hon. Charles Harley Mansur, M.C, - - - 59 

Robert Harti^ey Marceli^us, - - - - - 116 

Charles Weli^s Marsh, . - . . . 116 

Prof. Otis Tufton Mason, ----- 54 

William L,yman Mason, - - - - - 54 

James Maynard. - - - - - - - 116 

Gen. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, U.S.A.. - 55 

William Luff Meredith, ----- 135 

Capt. William Morton Meredith, - - - 117 

Alexander Porter Morse, - - - - - 55 

Maj. Howard Morton, ----- 57 

Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, ----- 57 

Edward Augustus Moseley, - - - - 57 

Zebina Moses, . . - - . . . jij 

Robert Brent Mosher, ----- 58 

Samuel Eccleston Mullan, ----- 58 

Henry Benson Munn, - - - . . 135 

Jacob Jackson Noah, ------ 58 

Galen Griffin Norton, ----- 59 

Herbert Gouverneur Ogden, - - - 118 

Col. Myron Melvin Parker,, - - - - 59 

Henry Hovey Parmenter, ----- 60 

Francis Henry Parsons, ----- 60 

Dr. Albert Charles Peale, - - - - - 118 

Peter Francisco Pescud, ----- 120 

Jesse David Bright Peters, ----- 61 

Col. John Lewis Peyton, - - - - - 120 

Rear-Admiral Thomas Stowell Phelps, U.S.N., - - 61 

Calvin Tilden Phillips, ----- 121 



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Henry Blackman Plumb, - - - - - 122 

Admiral David Dixon Porter,* - - - - 62 

Charles Porterfield, - - ----- 122 

Hon. Philip Sidney Post, M.C, - - - - 123 

Philip Sidney Post, Jr., ----- 123 

LiEUT.-CoL. Wm. M. Postlethwaite, U.S.A., - - 136 

Hon. Charles Debrille Poston, . . . . 63 

Dr. Daniel Webster Prentiss, . . . - 63 

Hon. Redfield Proctor, - - - - - ,69 

William Anderson Raborg, - . - - 136 

Hon. Estes George Rathbone, - - - - 124 

Col. Felix Alexander Reeve, . . . . 64 

Philip Key Reily, ...... 64 

William Jones Rhees, ------ 64 

Owen Riley, ------- 65 

Dr. Henry Alfred Robbins, - - - - 65 

Samuel Augustine Robinson, - - _ - 65 

Col. J. Sumner Rogers, - . - . . 124 

William Edgar Rogers, - - - - - 124 

Hon. George Carr Round, - - - - - 124 

Addison Gross Sargent, - - - - - 125 

WiLLL\M George Sargent, - - - - - 125 

Henry Clay Sayles, - - - - - 126 

Capt. Clinton Brooks Sears, U.S.A., - - - 66 

Col. Franklin Austin Seely, - - - . 66 

William Henry Harrison Sheets, - - - - 67 

William Carlysle Shelley, . . - . 67 

Senator John Sherman, - . - . . 67 

Hon. George Howell Shields, - - - - 126 

Howard Sill, - - - - - - - 126 

William Reynolds Singleton, - - - - 127 

Henry Martyn Skillman, Jr., - - - - 127 

Thom.\s T. Skillman, - . . - - 127 

* Deceased. 



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PAGE 

Frank Birge Smith, ...-.- 128 

Jonathan Leavitt Smith, ----- 68 

Robert Atwater Smith, - - - - - 128 

Merwin-Marie Snei^i,, . - . . . 68 

Richard Henry Spencer, ----- 68 

Dr. Joshua Otis Stanton,* ----- 69 

Dr. Francis Osmond St. Ci^air, - - - - 69 

Dr. Robert Edward Carter Stearns, - - - - 69 

Arm at Stood art, - - - - - - -128 

Justice Wii.i.iam Strong, ----- 70 

Wii^oN BuDD Strong, - - - - - - 70 

Mii,o Coi^burn Summers, ----- 129 

Alfred Bissei.Iv Tai^cott, ----- 70 

Fred. Firmer Tasker, . - . . . 71 

Gen. George Thom, U.S.A.,* ----- 71 

Prof. Gii^bert Thompson, ----- 71 

Washington Nelson Toler, - - - - - 129 

Gen. Edward Davis Townsend, U. S. A., - - - 73 

Richard Shubrick Trapier, - - - . 130 

Frederick William True, ----- 73 

Rowan Boone Tuley, - . - - - i^o 

Senator Zebulon B. Vance, ----- 74 

Med. Insp. William Knickerbocker Van Reypen, U.S.N. 130 

Hon. Edward Carrington Venable, M.C, - - 74 

Dallas Bache Wainwright . . - . 74 

Gen. Duncan Stjephen Walker, - - - - 75 

Hon. Joseph Henry Walker, M. C, - - - 31 

Robert John Walker, ------ 75 

Lawrence Washington, ----- 75 

Col. Thornton Augustin Washington, - - - 77 

John Elfreth Watkins, ----- 78 

Andrew Baker Webb, ------ 78 

Martin VanBuren Webb, ----- 78 

* Deceased. 






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Samuei, DiIvIvArd Webb, . - - - 

WiivWAM Hoi<coMB Webster, 
WiivLiAM Pratt WethereIvI,, 

ASHTON STOODLEY HaIvI. White, 

Dr. Guy Fairfax Whiting, 

John Brewer Wight, - . - - 

IvLOYD Buchanan Wight, 

Otis Caleb Wight, .... 

Dr. Ahab George Wii^kinson, 

Ernest Wii^kinson, . . . . 

George L. Wilkinson, 

Charles McAllister Willcox, 

Gen. Orlando Bolivar Willcox, U. S. A., - 

Orlando Blodgett Willcox, 

William Crawford Winlock, 

Rev. Clarence E. Woodman, - 

Dr. Francis Joseph Woodman, 

Rear-Admiral John Lorimer Worden, U.S.N. 

Hon. John Vines Wright, - 

Gen. Marcus Joseph Wright, - 

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